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 [...]
…”I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are.” — Sun CEO, Scott McNealy in a 2006 article at The Register. Being big tech industry news, MacRumors posted a note on the Oracle buyout [...]
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 [...]
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.