Comments on: Sun acquires MySQL

By: Repercusiones de la adquisión de MySQL por parte de Sun « Sistemas Operativos

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:01:09 +0000

[…] De interés el artículo de Jonathan Swartz acerca de la adquisión de MySQL titulado Helping Dolphins Fly (Ayundando a volar a los delfines), donde se anuncian “grandes noticias” y de la repercursión en Sun de invertir miles de millones de dólares en la M de LAMP. Ian Murdock, creador de Debian, actualmente en la plantilla de Sun, se hace, también de la noticia sobre el anuncio de “big news” de la compra. […]

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Sun acquista MySQL — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:57:30 +0000

[…] innocentemente i miei feed, quando apprendo dal blog di ian murdock, che la Sun si è accordata con MySQL per compierne […]

By: JW

JW — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:21:20 +0000

So might this be a move to bolster MySQL into something that can stand against MS-SQL and, maybe someday, Oracle?

So, it seems that maybe the OSS aspect of this can be virtually ignored. Perhaps SUN isn’t doing this so much to become a more active member in the OSS arena and is more looking at setting up a free + enterprise piece of software?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:01:39 +0000

Getting friendly with acadamia makes complete sense. It’s not about making money in the short term, it’s about getting people to use your hardware/software. People are more likely to go with something they are familiar with so if you get them using your gear in college they become future customers.

Hopefully Sun can help MySQL scale to more than 4 cores because it completely sucks there. In fact from what I’ve seen lately PostgreSQL has been kicking MySQL’s butt in performance.

By: JW

JW — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:02:41 +0000

Huh? _Why_? I’m having a hard time swallowing the rationale about wanting to get friendly with academia — there’s no money there. From my vague view of the OSS world, SUN hasn’t really been a strongly active member in recent years; so what’s the real reason for buying MySQL AB?

Some mysteries I can pass by, but this one has my attention.