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Sun to buy MySQL AB

salimma — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:15:05 +0000

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.

Sun to buy MySQL AB

man_ls — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:59:00 +0000

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

jordanb — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:43:17 +0000

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.

The roots of MySQL are in Finland

JJ — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:57:41 +0000

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.

Sun to buy MySQL AB

johnny — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:36:18 +0000

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!

Strange Statement by MySQL VP

johnny — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:31:01 +0000

You're correct, AB means aktiebolag (which literally translates to "stock-company").

Sun to buy MySQL AB

captrb — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:44:31 +0000


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

diablero — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:22:49 +0000

Sun has shipped Postgresql in last solaris/opensolaris. Will they ship and support the two DB
?

Sun vs Oracle

NAR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:01:42 +0000

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?

Strange Statement by MySQL VP

NAR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:54:47 +0000

I guess he just wanted to show that how international Sun is.

Strange Statement by MySQL VP

sdenlinger — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:41:56 +0000

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

clugstj — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:09:46 +0000

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.