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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Member since:2005-07-05
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.
Member since:2005-10-31
Member since:2005-07-06
I think it is more the realisation that sure, they could spend millions of dollars trying to push Postgres and gain marketshare - but the market is pretty much happy already with MySQL, so it makes little sense trying to go against the grain simply for the sake of doing so.
Its a good buy but personally if I was Sun, it would have been nicer if they had more cash on tap because Sybase would have been a wonderful product to put up against Oracle and DB2; throw it into their $100 per employee per year Solaris Enterprise System package.
With that being said, hopefully Sun will have the resources to be able to allocate towards turning MySQL into an enterprise level database, and improve the ease of use so that it can scale down to medium/small businesses who want an easy to use centralised database.
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2006-12-28
Looks to me like Sun wants a peace of the LAMP pie and realized that having excellent support for PostgreSQL is not enough.
I don't really think this will make a large inroad on x86 web servers running Linux but for any Sparc houses who don't necessarily want to struggle with the Sun Java Enterprise System stack, it could be a god send.
Only thing I'd be worried about would be putting all my support options in one basket.