Open Source unite! Sun buys MySQL
I guess this is one of the more exciting recent news – Sun bought MySQL! That’s mind-boggling smart – especially given Sun’s track record for their commitment to Open Source movement. The past decade has seen a number of high profile acquisition, most of which is to complete their own portfolio, but I saw this as a little more special than a typical Google – Youtube / Ebay – Skype deal is the sense that there’s some camaraderie spirit behind all these.
And so the IT industry continue its decade long consolidation, and memories of a thousand flowers blooming during the dot com era floats further and further away quietly. When will the next time we see the boom spirit again?
That would put Sun as a direct competitor to Oracle in the database segment. I wonder how it would affect their [url=http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3576626]partnership[url].
Another consolidation is Oracle’s imminent acquisition of BEA for $8.5 billion, pushing it ahead of IBM in the middleware business..
wah – ini bukan phpbb 🙂
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3576626
Sun has been missing the database for the longest time, just that MySQL never came to mind coz it’s free, and most enterprise projects here don’t use it. They prefer to pay for Oracle/DB2/MSSQL for some reason…
Sun has PostgreSQL for enterprise. Somehow it just never become really popular.