I guess at a certain level, I’m only noting this in sort of a thumbing-my-nose-at-MySQL way, but the sale to Oracle of the company that creates the only transaction-safe storage back-end with referential integrity available for MySQL “has some real implications for MySQL”:http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/10/11/oracle-vs-mysql-ab/. I, of course, am largely unaffected because, well, I don’t use MySQL.