Board member Simon Phipps that "the time to fork hasn't arrived yet" and seconded another poster's point that it wouldn't be a good idea to fork the code base given that Oracle still does much of the development work, and provides the supporting community Web sites.

Phipps also noted that the company may not have formulated its plan for OpenSource, which given the load on Oracle head Larry Ellison's agenda these days, is quite understandable.

In an e-mail to IDG News Service, Phipps noted that Oracle has a different, more controlling, style of communicating with the open source world, compared to Sun's more open approach. This certainly can be seen in Oracle's with MySQL as well.

"Given Oracle's style, I have seen no concrete triggers for concern yet," Phipps wrote, in the e-mail to IDG.

Oracle did not immediately respond to requests for comment.