MySQL inventor Michael “Monty” Widenius shares his thoughts on the deal and its impact on MySQL. What could be Oracle’s plan with MySQL? Three different plans come to mind: They are going to kill MySQL (either directly or by not developing/supporting it fully) MySQL will get sold of to another entity, either because Oracle doesn’t [...]
After months of rumors that IBM was to acquire Sun, Cnet is reporting that Sun is selling, but not to IBM, rather to Oracle. The deal is reportedly worth $7.4B. I you’ve read my blog, you’ll know that my primary concern with the acquisition of Sun from any company is the fate MySQL, which Sun [...]
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, IBM is looking to acquire Sun. According to the NY Times, the acquisition appears to be imminent for a cool $7 billion (h/t Slashdot). My main question is “what will happen to MySQL?”, especially in the midst of confusion over what the real version of the popular DB [...]
The New York Times is reporting (via Slashdot) that IBM and Sun are in talks regarding the former acquiring the latter. The Wall Street Journal, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than [...]
Today brings news that Sun has acquired MySQL AB, the corporate entity that develops the open-source relational database management system MySQL. I don’t have much to say about this because I’m not sure what to think. I know that MySQL AB has been slowed since Oracle acquired Innobase, a company that provided the InnoDB database engine for MySQL that featured capabilities such as referential integrity that allowed MySQL to compete against the likes of Oracle’s database offerings. MySQL AB itself had spurned Oracle’s advances before, which makes this acquisition a little surprising. I have worked and continue to work on projects using MySQL. It will be interesting to see what unfolds.