lolife » Computers http://www.lolife.com blunt observations Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:22:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Sun buys MySQL http://www.lolife.com/2008/01/sun-buys-mysql/ http://www.lolife.com/2008/01/sun-buys-mysql/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:16:56 +0000 lolife http://www.lolife.com/newblog/2008/01/16/sun-buys-mysql/ 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!
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