[chrishajer]

bbhack, you should take your arguments to Automattic.

This is something Matt said a while ago about MySQL and Oracle:

http://ma.tt/2009/04/oracle-and-open-source/

There have been discussions before of using different databases, or abstracting the whole thing, but I still feel there are many other bbPress features that need work before they tear out something that is working completely fine right now.