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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If Sun couldn't make excellent support for PostgreSQL work for them, how are they going to make support for MySQL work any better?
I guess owning MySQL will force people to deal with them whereas excellent PostgreSQL support doesn't, but Sun's always seemed a bit like Novell to me in that they are both skilled at killing technologies they buy.
On a side note, PostgreSQL is an outstanding SQL server, in my opinion, and more people ought to take a look at it.