Clarification: MySQL AB did not force the removal of MySQLFront

Our web team informed me that we received a few comments from users about MySQL AB supposedly shutting down the development of the MySQLFront utility. I’d just like to clarify that this was not the case at all – we merely asked the developers to stop violating our trade mark as outlined in our Trade Mark Policy. As I wrote some time ago, our trade marks are a very important asset to us as a company and we need to take action, if our marks are being violated.

We did not ask or force them to stop the development or to remove the program from the market completely – this was their very own decision. In fact, we actually encouraged them from the beginning of our discussion to continue the development of the product under a different name. The problem appeared resolved as the project was renamed to SQLFront and the old web site pointed to the new location – we regret that the developers decided to shut down the entire project shortly afterwards.

We encourage and support every application that broadens the MySQL Ecosystem. Why would we want to completely shut off applications that support us?