Re: [SAGE] Sun acquires MySQL

Subject: Re: [SAGE] Sun acquires MySQL

From: "Rodrick Brown" <rodrick.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:52:48 -0500

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On Jan 19, 2008 11:25 AM, Kate Harris <kat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 19/01/2008, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml
>
> Not sure why Sun waited until the very last minute to do this, this
> acquistion should have happened many years ago I think its a bit too late
> but who knows.
> Just imagine how many MySQL support licenses they could have sold with
> E450's V880's etc..

Not sure how this will work now in practical terms with Oracle owning
innoDB. Yes, innoDB is still open source, but could Oracle change
their mind on that at any time? My grasp of the details is sketchy at
best, but it's still something that sprang to mind when I saw the
press release last week.

Remember InnoDB is just a storage engine for MySQL and its GPL, MyISAM is still the most used storage engine for MySQL and its also the default engine so I dont see this being too much of an issue. My guess Sun will probably engineering a much better ACID compliant enterprise ready storage engine for MySQL over time or license InnoDB if need be. This is still an interesting acquisition for Sun.

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