$1,000,000,000 buyout. That's a billion. With a B. I guess we can all agree that open source is a viable business platform, 'eh?
congratulations Sun!! It's amazing to see MySQL as a part of Sun but 1 billion??? MySQL is worth much more
Enterprise editions : $4999.00 /Server/Year Platinum $2999.00 /Server/Year Gold Silver's $1999, Basic is $599 Plus training etc. Open Source was good for them to expand their base. I'm sure some of the succesful sites started with them and upgraded over moving to a new system. Should have said PLUS training: check these prices out https://shop.mysql.com/training/
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/01/16/sun-acquires-mysql/ Wow, someone is really taking MySQL seriously - I think it's going to be able to compete with Oracle once it gets some serious backing... Good news
Glad Sun bought MYSQL, i always thought MySQL was way better and easier to use then Oracle. Not a big fan of Oracle anyways.
It's gonna be great for both MySQL developers/community and for Sun. Looking into the past, Sun has done more than any other company on the planet for open source, and this is just another step to prove their position.
got to love those that are too young to remember suns history.... traditionally they certainly didnt help opensource. A big financial purchase (even if it is very low for the user base) may result in a return to old form
Astaroth, can you elaborate? I'm really curious, although I still remember the time when Solaris wasn't open source.
45% of the database market is controlled by oracle. Small sites use mysql corporations use oracle and larger business use oracle usually.
Sadly I would have rathered Oracle be the one to purchase MySql than Sun. Oracle in my opinion has been more on key with developer support.. but that's just my 2 cents
No offense, but I've been working with Linux since 1993 and before that I worked with Solaris and DEC Unix and did a couple of contracts at Sun. Sun was very late getting into the open-source community and they have a terrible track record with acquisitions and trying to merge them into their Solaris/Java/VM model. When Sun does something, there's a reason behind it, and that reason is money. mySQL is not profitable and Sun stands to lose a lot of money on this deal, that is, unless their business partner Oracle helps them out. Anybody with their ear to the ground in the mySQL development community knows this deal means there's going to be a development fork in the mySQL road ahead with all the premiere mySQL developers taking the path away from Sun. Now, before you slag me off as bashing Sun, I do own quite a bit of stock in Sun and Oracle. I've been trading Sun, Oracle and Red Hat stock for almost 10 years. Oracle is still the best enterprise database and Sun's Solaris and Sparc architecture was ahead of it's time, and well, Java was a spectacular development. My point is that mySQL had finally went bigtime as of mySQL 5 which now has stored procedures and triggers. Stored routines brought mySQL to an enterprise level and that's a huge threat to Oracle. If you've never been certified by Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, Cicso, etc .. You just don't really realize the impact mySQL has had on the development community. It used to be DBA's spent tens of thousands of dollars on certification and made $100K+ per year playing Oracle DBA. Now, with mySQL, you have 17 year old kids managing mySQL databases for minimum wage. Ergo, in 1992-1997, you could clear $100+ per hour just for being able to code CGI's in Perl that used DBD::Oracle but today, with PHP+mySQL, again, you have kids working for minimum wage doing database work and the small startups they work for aren't buying Oracle licenses. btw, Anybody using PostgreSQL ?