Oracle RIF effects on MySQL ?

[Sheryl Carlson]

Oracle is going through huge RIF and MySQL is heavily affected. We pay for MySQL support and it's basically non existent ATTM! 90% of the support team is fired, whole dev team that was fixing bugs is fired, huge chunk of core developers are gone too. Workbench team is gone, MEM team is gone. Worse part is RIF process is not done.

Oracle said they are focusing on HeatWave and AI within OCI but what about us that use MySQL for few decades? I know there are MariaDB and that Percona have their fork too but both are heavily dependent on the Oracle work. If Oracle is scrapping MySQL - what is the best course of action now? Should we look at alternatives immediately or should we hope someone will pick up all the riffed engineers and continue the work (e.g. Meta as one of the biggest users or Amazon that already have a big team working on MySQL source) and we hope they will share it with rest of us? Problem is we already know Amazon is not sharing their work.