It’s all over the news… Unfortunately, I wondered away from keep track of this. The last time I was watching, IBM was considering it.
The press release confirms that Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems. I was a little surprised by the news, but not surprised by the move.
I think it’s a great move. I’ve worked with Sun and Oracle for over 14 years and both are great companies with great products. I’m very curious to see how things progress from here.
I also wonder… what’s going to happen to MySQL? Ideally it would be great if it continued to mature with Oracle’s help. But I wonder if Oracle wants to keep it around. Selling it would just be creating competition. Keeping it would give customers an option other than going with Oracle’s RDBMS products.
We should find out soon.
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Well, it looks as if, at least for now, there is still going to be hope for MySQL — which is good.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042109-oracle-mysql.html?hpg1=bn