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Sun Hints At Open-Source Database Offering

Posted by timothy on from the trial-balloon-up-flagpole dept.

An anonymous reader points out a ZDNet story which begins "Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates," writing "Last week, during a meeting with financial analysts, Chief Executive Scott McNealy showed a slide that placed the words 'Sun DB' next to a list of existing database products. McNealy offered no details besides 'stay tuned.'"

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  1. currying favors by jeif1k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sun could "curry favors" with the FOSS community if they followed through on their committment made 10 years ago to turn Java over to a standards process. They would also curry favors if they just kicked out Schwartz, who has been behaving like a jerk towards FOSS.

    Yet another database won't make any any difference in their reputation. If anything, it's just a sign that Sun doesn't play well withothers--they could just use PostgreSQL.