Sun buys MySQL
16 January 2008
by
lolife
Filed under
Computers
Apparently Sun is going to buy MySQL. This could have huge implications not just for the mysql database but for open source in general. Sun isn’t a bad company, per se, and they have been embracing the open source model. I can see how this fits in nicely with their strategies for the future. MySQL, on the other hand, could benefit from having big brain hardware and software guys and a lot of commercial relationships with huge installs of expensive, legacy Sun equipment. So, their stock price to the contrary, Sun is probably not that bad of a partner for MySQL.
Yet you can’t help shudder at the thought of big-ass companies buying up all the open source technology and making it proprietary somehow. Oracle buys apache! SAP buys Ubuntu! HP buys Firefox!