Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Jan 2008 14:34 UTC, submitted by BluenoseJake
MySQL AB and Sun have announced that MySQL has been bought by Sun. "Sun Microsystems today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately USD 1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the USD 15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor." More here.
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2005-07-21
to improve Java acceptance on web hosters.
Sun often has great ideas. But imho they are not able to make it attractive for many people.
Example: JavaFX. Nice idea and I like the language. But there are no released tools for productive use. Not enough marketing etc.
Same with Java for web applications: It is ok for big companies, but why don't they try to improve its acceptance for hobby programmers? They should try to make it easier and we need much more java hosters for hobby programmers.
I hope that the mysql deal is not the same as usual. Else Sun is able to pull down MySQL usage and spreading.
They obviously think: Hm we do it only halfway through, the rest will be finished without us. They have to make it more comfortable for developers and newbies to spread the technologies.
Greetings
Mike