Oracle has owned InnoBase since 2005. You still have InnoDB tables in MySQL.
Oracle has owned BerkeleyDB since 2006. You still have BerkeleyDB tables in MySQL.
Both companies produce GPL and commercial software based on their technologies. Just like MySQL.
Two forks of MySQL are being worked on.. Drizzle which is designed to store data in the Cloud. And MariaDB which is a new table engine being developed by the original creator of MySQL, who left Sun earlier this year after the MySQL 5.1 Controversy.
Finally, it is in Oracle's best interest to win over the millions of MySQL Community users in order to open up their products to smaller customers than the current Entreprises that it caters to. This will be crucial so they can compete against Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the Data Management Market. Though we may see a change in name eventually. Oracle Community Database wouldn't be so bad.
Now MySQL Enterprise on the otherhand... It no longer serves a need in the combined portfolio in the two companies.
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