WordPress’s future

 

I’m a huge fan of WordPress. I’ve been using it for years. The reasons are numerous. Passionate community, robust base functionality augmented (I love that word) by thousands of plugins, and the fact that it is one of the most successful opensource products ever.

The one thing about WordPress that I’ve always worried about is what if Matt Mullenweg, one of the founding developers of WordPress (think Bill Gates), decides he wants to cash out and sells WordPress somehow. Well something else I hadn’t thought of just occured.

The database that WordPress uses is called MySQL. It’s probably the most popular web database going so it’s a no brainer for WordPress to use it. But Sun, the company behind MySQL that has always made the source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License, just sold to Oracle.

Frightening.

Matt has a post about it here. I’d like to see this spur WordPress into being ported to other databases like PostgreSQL.

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