[LinuxUsers] Oracle to buy Sun...

[Jeff Lasman]

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
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