[pletnes]

For SQL server, AWS can save their customers money by cutting license cost (to MS). MySQL is already free so I don’t see how they can benefit from such a project.

[bbatha]

They can go one better — they can fork the parsers out of both projects and run it against a common query planner/storage engine (aurora).

[jcriddle4]

If you have several thousand stored procs and triggers then having to not rewrite all of that is actually likely over a million in savings.

[etaioinshrdlu]

I agree, but there might be a creative way to do it that increases customer happiness and still is a decent business.

[ksec]

>don’t see how they can benefit from such a project

I thought there were bad blood between Oracle and Amazon?

[jen20]

In that case you'd expect to see it for Oracle proper instead of MySQL first, no?

[rj0049]

The Oracle wire protocol contains a (copyrighted) haiku, so no one can reverse-engineer the Oracle wire protocol without infringing on Oracle's copyright.