Oracle has instigated "widespread layoffs" across its core MySQL development team, sparking concern about the future of one of the world's most popular open-source databases.

It looks like multiple great, tenured people were laid off from MySQL team at Oracle – Peter Zaitsev

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Around 70 members of the team behind the open source database have been shown the door as part of Oracle's latest round of redundancies , according to one high-level source in the MySQL community.

The Register has asked Oracle to respond and clarify its position and we'll update this article if we hear back.

Michael "Monty" Widenius, who co-authored the original MySQL in the 1990s, posted that he was "Heartbroken to hear about the widespread layo

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