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- ederbaum, on 04/20/2009, -12/+56Bad news MySQL.
I'd prefer IBM - cx0der, on 04/20/2009, -3/+45Oracle please don't screw MySQL. Please.....
We don't want LAMP to become LAOP - Bloodwine, on 04/20/2009, -2/+35It'll put MySQL and InnoDB back under the same roof, which I like.
I am going to be cautiously optimistic and hope that MySQL is pretty much left alone since it services a different sector than Oracle.
I'm just tired of always being so damn cynical. - Gibletoid, on 04/20/2009, -3/+33I lost all respect for Sun the moment they tried to give me a Yahoo tool bar included with my Java UPGRADE.
Who are you, RealPlayer? - shakabrah, on 04/20/2009, -2/+21JAVA was one of the cooler stock symbols out there. Kind of sad to see it go.
- Jdub7, on 04/20/2009, -3/+22Ok Fate. I'll take a serious look at PostgreSQL. SHeesh!
- etx313, on 04/20/2009, -0/+15wget mysql-source.tar.gz
- Bloodwine, on 04/20/2009, -0/+15I'd go to LAPP if MySQL takes a turn for the worst, assuming a viable MySQL fork hasn't materialized by then.
- boricuaenigma, on 04/20/2009, -2/+16I'm curious as to the impact of MySQL if this goes through.
- zephc, on 04/20/2009, -0/+13Sun AND Oracle? This news piece is way too Enterprisey for a monday
- nonymous666, on 04/20/2009, -0/+11IBM has let Informix mostly languish since they bought it back in 2001.
Which is sad since Informix was seen as being better than DB2 at the time.
I'd expect IBM to treat MySql the same way, if not worse. - Romukas, on 04/20/2009, -0/+11They will rename it to OOOo.
- InorganicMatter, on 04/20/2009, -0/+11Who wants to bet PostgreSQL really takes off next year? Either that, or we'll get a fork of MySQL, and a mess of compatibility ("Only supported on the commercial edition of MySQL").
- cshields, on 04/20/2009, -0/+10you deserved that one
- MonkeyOverlord, on 04/20/2009, -2/+11If Oracle does screw with MySQL, it'll just get forked. "Oracle MySQL" may become proprietary and get a lot better in some areas, but there is no reason to worry about a GPLed app suddenly getting thrown under the bus unless no one is willing to fork it. The worst that Oracle could do would be to stop dual-licensing, which would have no impact on existing versions that are under the GPL
- litbruin, on 04/20/2009, -1/+10And i sold your stock on FRIDAY!!!!!! FML.
- shredswithpiks, on 04/20/2009, -0/+9"what has Sun really accomplished lately?"
Depends on how recent you mean by lately. ZFS is pretty awesome. - skillet, on 04/20/2009, -0/+8They must've held the acquisition meetings outdoors as there is no way they could've found a room large enough to accomodate Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy's egos.
- latrosicarius, on 04/20/2009, -6/+14Oh geeze, not Oracle...........
- FKnight, on 04/20/2009, -0/+7http://preview.tinyurl.com/5cuy94
Scalable datacenter modules delivered on a flatbed. That's pretty impressive if you ask me. - rchargel, on 04/20/2009, -1/+8Totally agree. After Sun, IBM was Java's biggest supporter. Now, not only does Oracle own Weblogic, but now it essentially owns Java and MySQL. Basically, Oracle now owns what is probably the largest open-source platform.
- joeyGibson, on 04/20/2009, -0/+7I'm concerned about the future of Netbeans. I really didn't care for Netbeans until very recently, but it has excellent support for Grails.
- brettalton, on 04/20/2009, -1/+8Can we just list all of the IP Oracle just purchased?
* Eclipse
* GlassFish
* Java
* MySQL (recently purchased from MySQL AB)
* NetBeans
* OpenOffice.org
* Solaris/OpenSolaris
* UltraSPARC
* VirtualBox (recently purchased from InnoTek) and Sun xVM
* ZFS
... and that's just software, let along their hardware market.
To those who say Sun Microsystems wasn't doing anything is dead wrong and to tell you the truth, this deal sort of scares me. I think Jonathan Schwartz (Sun's CEO) was making great strides with transparency and openness (including open source). I just hope that it (somehow) continues with Oracle. - Kremzeek, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6Wouldn't OPAL make a better acronym for that one?
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -2/+8Does anyone really believe Oracle and MySQL share the same market space? When was the last time MySQL was measured in the TPC benchmarks against Oracle 10g or any other enterprise RDBMS? How many Superdomes and Sunfire X4100's out there running MySQL.
My blog on my dual-core Intel workstation at home runs MySQL and so do a lot of ISP's on Dell pizza boxes. Clearly a threat to Oracle while up against the likes of MS SQL 2008 SQL x-64 Ent. edition, DB2, EXASOL and ParAccel Analytic.
If you're going to digg it down and contest it you better research clustered and load balanced enterprise database scalability first. Oracle's bread and butter. - spdorsey, on 04/20/2009, -1/+7Me too, but I think this really only impacts the people who work at these companies. Oracle is the company everyone loves to hate, and what has Sun really accomplished lately?
I can see MySQL spinning off into its own entity. I cannot imagine a world where it does not exist. - nicktx, on 04/20/2009, -1/+7How long before Starbucks grabs it?
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6Actually this is DIGG. We ARE a bunch of nerds.
- StreetPreacher, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6Wow, IBM really screwed the pooch in letting that deal fall through. Now a major asset has gone to a large competitor.
- caldera, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6I think Larry Ellison would love to stick it to Microsoft any way he can. Owning the company that puts out a free alternative to Office is probably a good start. Not to mention OpenSolaris.
- sfcaptainrob, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5Yeah, I've been meaning to as well for a while now.
- kollross, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5Everything i'm reading is in regards to MySQL. Last time I checked MySQL isn't SUN's only product (and it hasn't been a sun product for very long). Of all the potential buyers of Sun, I would say Oracle gives Sun the most chance to continue as business as usual. IBM would have stripped solaris of everything that was good and left it to bleed to death. All the rest of the product lines would have been killed instantly (minus java). At least Oracle gives some of these technologies a fighting chance. Solaris on sparc is still the preferred platform for Oracle DB. Now Oracle can essentially own the entire platform (including hardware). So as a sun person this makes me a lot more happy that the IBM deal.
- tonmil, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5Let's see whether the DOJ steps in regarding the MySQL piece. At one point the head of MySQL wanted to turn the huge multi-billion dollar RDBMS market in a multi-million dollar business. Oracle may have bought Sun to prevent that from happening.
- MWeather, on 04/20/2009, -1/+6That's their own damn fault for dragging ass on open sourcing Java.
- MWeather, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5MySQL was already forked when Sun bought them.
- sirloxelroy, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4Noooooooooooooooooooooooo. I hope Oracle doesn't flush MySQL or OpenOffice.
- bitmanx, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4$7+ billion to kill off mysql, nice job. IBM is probably cheering knowing DB2 and Oracle will continue being the future products to buy.
- nullvector, on 04/20/2009, -2/+6Get better? Oracle ruins everything they touch.
- spritom, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4Good or bad this is big news.
But for some reason the news seems more interested in Zac Efron. - booyahbitch, on 04/20/2009, -1/+5While I am concerned about MySQL, what about OpenOffice? I use it at work along with about 700 others, what will become of it?
- nonymous666, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Oracle offers Oracle XE for free. (Admittedly, it's a deliberately 'crippled' version of Oracle, so can't perform as well as a MySQL.)
- mcpotato, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Isn't Eclipse of IBM's heritage?
- charlietuna, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3It's still open source, so can they kill it if someone wants to fork it?
- merky1, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Actually, I think that may be a more sinister ploy to undermine IBM's middleware plays. Having Oracle in charge of Java would give them more ammo in the anti-IBM fight.
- kollross, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Just think, the two people that hate MS the most just joined forces.
- berobreo, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Postgres is a great Db, really complete
- EarlOfLade, on 04/20/2009, -0/+31/3 of a second faster per transaction times 100 000 000 000 transactions. You tell me...
- 4degrees, on 04/20/2009, -2/+5i would really much rather have had IBM buy them...
- EarlOfLade, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Really?
Some of us actually work for those companies, you know. - charlietuna, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Maybe now Oracle will have a (limited) MySQL compability mode, or vice versa. I hope they don't kill try to MySQL.
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