http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080116-sun-targets-open-source-lamp-stack-with-mysql-acquisition.html

this does not bode well

1/16/2008 4:50:59 PM

well if it turns into what java is then yes, this is a bad thing

1/16/2008 4:52:31 PM

see also: AOL buys Nullsoft

[Edited on January 16, 2008 at 4:55 PM. Reason : make that AOL buys *]

1/16/2008 4:54:05 PM

not necessarily a bad thing.

1/16/2008 5:01:35 PM

if you're referring to the $1 billion then yeah that's not too bad

1/16/2008 5:06:19 PM

i'm not sure how i feel about this...could be bad, may not matter at all

1/16/2008 5:11:28 PM

i just hope they don't leave the free version to rot and push enterprise. not really any reason to think that at the moment though.

1/16/2008 5:42:31 PM

oh well. mysql wasn't a world beater

1/16/2008 5:52:41 PM

yes it was

1/16/2008 6:00:57 PM

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

1/16/2008 8:17:38 PM

Are you kidding? This is one one of the most important things to come out of F/OSS, right beside Apache and GNU/Linux.

1/16/2008 8:39:15 PM

I'de rather see MySQL go to Sun than Oracle. And that is coming from someone who makes their living off of Oracle.

Sun has a much better track record with open source. Sun will help it thrive while Oracle would probably kill it.

-- Dave

1/16/2008 10:09:16 PM

postgresql or oracle



mysql has some serious limitations that don't make it a big loss for me, if it were to go away

1/16/2008 10:15:35 PM