Google has offered its own changes under a General Public License to the MySQL database. This is potentially good news for some open-source fans and here is a link to a list of ways Google is currently utilizing MySQL.

We use MySQL on all our applications. I see little reason to use Oracle, Microsoft, or ColdFusion. Why use those databases when you don't have full control over the code and have to pay high fees for comparable software.

There is some grumbling that Google's additions should not be accepted, but this is ridiculous: if the changes made the finished product more robust, then it doesn't matter from who them changes come.