Here is a job requirement I came across today.

Requirements:

• 5+ years PHP experience
• 4+ years SQL and Oracle experience
• 1-2 years Ruby, .NET, Java, JEE, experience
• HTML
• JavaScript
• AJAX
• jQuery
• CSS
• Web 2.0

Bonus:

• Web-specific Photoshop experience
• A strong knowledge of current web trends and resources
• A good understanding of usability and accessibility, including coding to WAI standards

There are at the least 3 jobs here and they only want to pay for one, How many hats can you wear?

On January 27th 2010 Oracle completed its buyout of Sun Microsystems and in 2008 Sun bought MySQL. When Sun bought MySQL they agreed to keep open source, Oracle did not! Just look what happened to InnoDB. Oracle started working on InnoDB+, a better closed source version and let the open source version fall into disarray.

Will this happen to MySQL? There is a good chance they will close the source and start charging licensing fees. Unlike InnoDB, MySQL is used by large companies and corporations. What will this mean to me and you? As far as I can see it, there are 3 things that may happen.

• You host has to buy a license and pass the cost on to you and your clients

• The host will say no and use MariaDB, a drop-in replacement for MySQL (developed by the same people that developed MySQL)

• The host will say no and switch to PostgreSQL.           

However it plays out it could be a bombshell exploding on the open source community. It was a sad day when only 89,184 people signed the petition to keep MySQL open source. If that few people had signed the petition to split Mozilla off from Netscape keeping it from becoming the AOL browser, there wouldn't be a Firefox!