[OT] Sun to acquire MySQL for $1B

Interesting development...

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/01/14/daily4 3.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Re: [OT] Sun to acquire MySQL for $1B

"Daniel Klein" schreef in bericht
news:i7dso35i0pk1habpumg78c9f83j6n8tm67@4ax.com...
> Interesting development...
>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/01/14/daily4 3.html?jst=b_ln_hl

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.ht ml
or
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.x ml

is direct source...

Re: [OT] Sun to acquire MySQL for $1B

Luuk wrote:

>
> "Daniel Klein" schreef in bericht
> news:i7dso35i0pk1habpumg78c9f83j6n8tm67@4ax.com...
>> Interesting development...
>>
>>
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/01/14/daily4 3.html?jst=b_ln_hl
>
> http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.ht ml
> or
> http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.x ml
>
> is direct source...

I thought it was open source....

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Re: [OT] Sun to acquire MySQL for $1B

"Baho Utot" schreef in bericht
news:e7u165-5me.ln1@ishtar.bildanet.com...
> Luuk wrote:
>
>>
>> "Daniel Klein" schreef in bericht
>> news:i7dso35i0pk1habpumg78c9f83j6n8tm67@4ax.com...
>>> Interesting development...
>>>
>>>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/01/14/daily4 3.html?jst=b_ln_hl
>>
>> http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.ht ml
>> or
>> http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.x ml
>>
>> is direct source...
>
> I thought it was open source....
>

of course i ment to say that those last links where 'direct source' to
origin of this "news"....

Re: [OT] Sun to acquire MySQL for $1B

Baho Utot wrote:

> I thought it was open source....

It is, but most of the development on MySQL is sponsored by MySQL AB, a
commercial entity. (Similarly OpenOffice.org is sponsored by Sun and
Firefox by the Mozilla Foundation.)

A database has been the string missing from Sun's bow for a long time.
Sure, they had Adabas D, but no-one took that seriously.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with MySQL now. Sun have been a
company relatively friendly to open source, so I doubt that we'll see
major forking by developers opposed to the new ownership. Development will
probably continue much like it always has, but expect to see more focus on
support for OpenSolaris; improved JDBC bindings; and possibly further down
the line, support for functions and stored procedures written in Java.

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