Oracle Publicly Pledges 10 MySQL Commitments

Oracle has listed 10 promises in regards to maintaining MySQL when it acquires Sun. On its Website, Oracle states it will adhere to the following:

1. Continued Availability of Storage Engine APIs

Oracle shall maintain and periodically enhance MySQL’s Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture to allow users the flexibility to choose from a portfolio of native and third party supplied storage engines.

MySQL’s Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture shall mean MySQL’s current practice of using, publicly-available, documented application programming interfaces to allow storage engine vendors to “plug” into the MySQL database server. Documentation shall be consistent with the documentation currently provided by Sun.

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