Wow, it looks like Sun has (or will very soon) aqcuired MySQL AB, the company behind the MySQL database. GIven my own personal preferance for Postgres, I can't help but wonder (hope!) if something is also being negotiated with the PostgreSQL guys. Hmm...
Nomen Publicus 16 January 2008 21:55:52 [ permanent link ]
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
Wow, it looks like Sun has (or will very soon) aqcuired MySQL AB,
the company behind the MySQL database. GIven my own personal
preferance for Postgres, I can't help but wonder (hope!) if something
is also being negotiated with the PostgreSQL guys. Hmm...
Why on earth would Sun want to own mysql? Is this a preemptive move to ensure the mysql doesn't get bought by some other company that may not look favourably on Sun?
Mr. G D Geen 17 January 2008 00:18:58 [ permanent link ]
Rich Teer wrote:
Wow, it looks like Sun has (or will very soon) aqcuired MySQL AB,
the company behind the MySQL database. GIven my own personal
preferance for Postgres, I can't help but wonder (hope!) if something
is also being negotiated with the PostgreSQL guys. Hmm...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc said on Wednesday it would buy open-source developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion to expand into the database market, and reported preliminary quarterly results that it said showed no impact from the slowing U.S. economy.
Well I hope SUN's first move will be to move docs.sun.com from whatever database it's using now to MySQL. So that documentation can be browsed and read without painful waits - as it should be.
Alan Coopersmith 17 January 2008 07:56:22 [ permanent link ]
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes in comp.unix.solaris: |Wow, it looks like Sun has (or will very soon) aqcuired MySQL AB, |the company behind the MySQL database. GIven my own personal |preferance for Postgres, I can't help but wonder (hope!) if something |is also being negotiated with the PostgreSQL guys. Hmm...
There is no PostgreSQL, Inc. to buy, is there? Just an open source community, which Sun is already involved in and contributes to.
Wow, it looks like Sun has (or will very soon have) aqcuired MySQL AB,
the company behind the MySQL database. GIven my own personal
preferance for Postgres, I can't help but wonder (hope!) if something
is also being negotiated with the PostgreSQL guys. Hmm...
Now this is indeed an interesting corporate development. I will admit to little knowledge about PostgreSQL as a product; I will however say that I am Oracle-fluent and MySQL-familiar. I will also admit to my own personal preference for Oracle's database product because I am used to it, and because of their (or more specifically Larry Ellison's) relatively recent claims to more fully integrate with and support open source development (although I remain somewhat supicious of Oracle's honesty in this regard). Between Postgres and MySQL though, it occurs to me that MySQL AB is somewhat more ahead of the market curve. Criticisms of this viewpoint cheerfully entertained.
Why on earth would Sun want to own mysql? Is this a preemptive move to
ensure the mysql doesn't get bought by some other company that may not look
favourably on Sun?
Why indeed? Given that SqlServer *is* Micro$oft, and given that the MS corporation is aggressively pushing and marketing their own in-house database software, it stands to reason that Sun would want to emulate this business model and thus grab a similar slice of their own DB pie. And why not? Where MS markets their SqlServer, Sun has no corresponding DB identity (other than to be an "Oracle Partner", or is it the other way around, where Oracle is a "Sun Partner"...) So Sun management needed to take a DB stand IMHO, and the stand they chose was MySQL. Not an entirely poor choice, as after all there aren't really all that many non-Oracle scalable production database products out there from which to choose.
On the other hand, and this may be really obscure, but could we be witnessing the preliminary stages of a Larry Ellison vs. Jonathan Schwartz clash-of-the-titans pissing contest?
