Sun's Buyout of MySQL

There's been some rumbling from some community members about the buyout of MySQL by Sun. It seems some of you are concerned. I'm not, here's why:

Sun is one of the few big corporations out there that actually gets open source software.
MySQL has publicly stated that they won't be dropping support for other platforms, or for Perl even after the buyout is complete.
WebGUI is designed in a way that would make the transition to some other database, such as Postgres not trivial, but relatively easy. So even if MySQL should go away, it's not the end of the world.

So you see there's nothing to be concerned about. Rest easy.

Re: Sun's Buyout of MySQL

User: ehab
Date: 1/20/2008 5:30 pm

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Although I do not think that Sun REALLY gets open source they where rather late in entering in it, they also have put licensing problems that do not permit the linux kernel from using code in thier opensource solaris kernel like ZFS.

But I think JT is still correct in saying that we have NOTHING to worry about. It may even be an oppertunity since Sun may have more resources to put behind MySQL. And they will try to push it very hard in the high end, I think that with Sun you will see better clustering support much sooner than if Sun did not buy.

The only real problem of this aquisition is for us to get used to saying Sun MySQL instead of just MySQL.

Ehab Heikal

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