There is a post by David Van Couvering to his dismissal from Sun in this NetBeans forum . David was the head of the DB NetBeans team. According to his information, the entire NetBeans team was disbanded in the United States.
They eliminated everyone in NetBeans in the United States. The entire team was laid off J2EE, as well as the frameworks team. They also eliminated the QA team in St. Petersburg. So I do not think it's about mysql db tooling and tooling redundancy.
In recent months, several improvements have been implemented in the DB support in NetBeans, the example now: even the SQL code completion in NetBeans PHP editor is possible.
Too bad! Both for the affected developers as well as the NetBeans users.
The database support in NetBeans could be really good. There were many ideas to take place in what direction the development should be. The following are links to a few wiki pages of the DB team:
NetBeansDatabases
RewriteDBExplorer
NetBeansDatabases
The developers have looked beyond the horizon and what is considered the competition evolves in this area: DBCompetitiveAnalysis
