Here is an interesting article about osnews.com's take on the whole deal: http://www.osnews.com/story/21340/What_s_Going_to_Happen_with_OpenOffice_MySQL_SPARC_
Chris ________________________________ From: Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> To: SoCal LUG Users List <linuxusers@socallinux.org> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:48:08 AM Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Oracle to buy Sun... On Monday 20 April 2009 09:33 am, Chris Penn wrote: > Another reason this would be interesting, and potentially scary is > that Sun owns Mysql now. MySQL is heavily used in the webhosting world. So heavily used that I don't think it could die. My guess is that developers would continue to work on it, perhaps paid by some of the larger webhosting companies, perhaps freely, because of need, and perhaps of course it would fork and carry a different name. If worst came to worst and it completely disappeared, we could always start supporting PostgreSQL (in fact we offer it now, on request). Hmmm... LAPP <smile>? > I wonder if Oracle's stock would go up if they announced they were > going to charge for Mysql's future releases. Probably not. Sun actually tried that. It didn't help Sun and it probably won't help Oracle. > If Sun came through, I think I would support them more then Oracle. Too late for that now; there's no way Sun can survive this economy without a buyout. Considering the McNealy/Ellison thing over the years, I'm sure it's the only reason Sun would say yes to an Oracle buyout. On Monday 20 April 2009 11:22 am Brian Wrote: > - MySQL, it is more a brand name than it is a software package at this > moment. While of course MySQL has a huge install base 5.1+ is > considered beta software at best. Good reads regarding this are the > numerous outsider blogs and specifically Monty's blog. This has been discussed every which way but loose for a while now, and the fact is that many webhosting companies (maybe most) are running MySQL 5 without perceived problems. Yes, in the enterprise community, the perceived issues with MySQL 5.1 are going to be a problem, but you don't really think Oracle is going to offer an enterprise version of MySQL to compete with Oracle, do you? My own feeling is that this will relegate MySQL to the non-enterprise communities, but this may in fact turn out to be a good thing. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
