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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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.