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"After several months of back and forth negotiation, MySQL and Oracle have agreed to a multi-year extension to the existing contract enabling MySQL to continue to sell and support the InnoDB storage engine," wrote Urlocker on his blog. "The terms of the agreement are very much "business as usual" for both companies."

The announcement is good news for existing MySQL users, and the indication is that the company will soon be offering a choice of transaction engines. MySQL previously revealed that it was working on "a number of alternative transactional engines."

When it acquired Jim Starkey's Netfrastructure it seemed likely the Interbase developer would be involved in coming up with a replacement given his focus on separating content, presentation and logic layers into a "content store" presentational engine, and Java Virtual Machine respectively.

That now appears to be the case. More details are expected about the company's storage engine strategy and roadmap at the MySQL users conference in April.