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Sun to buy MySQL AB
From Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's weblog comes the news that Sun is buying MySQL AB, the company behind the popular free database system. "MySQL is already the performance leader on a variety of benchmarks - we'll make performance leadership the default for every application we can find (and on every vendor's hardware platforms, not just Sun's - and on Linux, Solaris, Windows, all)."
Update: More information, including what this means to the MySQL community, can be found on MySQL VP Kaj Arnö's weblog, here. (Log in to post comments)
Strange Statement by MySQL VP Posted Jan 16, 2008 14:09 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] What does this statement mean? "Since I am based outside the US, I am particularly excited about meeting the many Sun engineers located in Hamburg (Germany), Grenoble (France), Prague (Czech Republic), St Petersburg (Russia), Beijing (China) and Bangalore (India)." Just seemed odd to me.
Strange Statement by MySQL VP Posted Jan 16, 2008 14:41 UTC (Wed) by sdenlinger (subscriber, #24239) [Link] MySQL AB is a Swedish company, so the VP is probably based in Sweden. I don't speak Swedish, but the "AB" part of the corporate name probably means "aktiebolag", the Swedish equivalent of an incorporated company. (Google is your friend.)
Strange Statement by MySQL VP Posted Jan 17, 2008 5:31 UTC (Thu) by johnny (subscriber, #10110) [Link] You're correct, AB means aktiebolag (which literally translates to "stock-company").
The roots of MySQL are in Finland Posted Jan 17, 2008 15:57 UTC (Thu) by JJ (subscriber, #2321) [Link] Both chief technical officer Michael "Monty" Widenius and CEO of MySQL AB Mårten Mickos have been born in Finland studied at the Helsinki University of Technology.
Strange Statement by MySQL VP Posted Jan 16, 2008 14:54 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] I guess he just wanted to show that how international Sun is.
Sun vs Oracle Posted Jan 16, 2008 15:01 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] There were stories here about Oracle buying the creators of the InnoDB and BerkeleyDB database engines, which are used by MySQL. It seemed to me that Oracle would by MySQL "from the bottom", now Sun bought it outright. Was it a defense against an Oracle takeover?
Sun to buy MySQL AB Posted Jan 16, 2008 15:22 UTC (Wed) by diablero (guest, #8741) [Link] Sun has shipped Postgresql in last solaris/opensolaris. Will they ship and support the two DB ?
Sun to buy MySQL AB Posted Jan 16, 2008 17:44 UTC (Wed) by captrb (subscriber, #2291) [Link]
I believe that Solaris already ships with Mysql pre-installed, thought it might be in the SFW
("sun free ware") packages.
Sun to buy MySQL AB Posted Jan 17, 2008 5:36 UTC (Thu) by johnny (subscriber, #10110) [Link] If you speak Swedish, do follow the link to Kaj's blog and read his "phonetic English" version of "Helan går" (a drinking song). It's hilarious!
Sun to buy MySQL AB Posted Jan 17, 2008 17:43 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link] Sun provides commercial support for Postgre, and it is my understanding that they're the principal corporate sponsor of that project. So I wonder what this move will mean for PostgreSQL, and it also makes my spider sense tingle that both big open source database projects are now controlled by Sun Microsystems.
Sun to buy MySQL AB Posted Jan 17, 2008 22:59 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Well, I don't have the slightest clue about what it means, but it sounds like this other story: when Novell bought SUSE, people realized that the two most popular free desktops would now be under the control of the same company. Well, some years later nothing has come out of that fact, good or bad, so I wonder if we should care much. (Alternatively it might be that only a vigilant community kept Novell from implementing its mischievous plans, so your raising the alarm could be a good thing. Hey, I already said that I don't have a clue.)
Sun to buy MySQL AB Posted Jan 18, 2008 16:15 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] Miguel has not managed to make Mono the primary language for the GNOME desktop, but on the other hand, Red Hat / Fedora has compromised and (thankfully) allowed Mono packages (F-spot and Tomboy) in their distributions.
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