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Sun Buys MySQL
Krow alerted me that MySQL has been bought by Sun. Right now there is only a brief announcement but it discusses what the acquisition will mean for the core developers, community etc.
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I hear they paid an astronomical amount for MySQL. In fairness though, the code is stellar. The developers must be beaming with pride. If I were a shareholder, it would certainly brighten up my day.
PS: Sorry.
I've been waiting SOO long for OpenJySQL 19!
Didn't they know they could just download it and run without paying?
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Man, I KNOW -- they didn't hire me either. Totally evil.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
Congratulations! Sun has a popular product at last.
They stand to make a lot of money off this acquisition.
One can only hope that they will be using this to replace the database that comes in Open Office.
I figured MS was paying them to include the current one to make Access look good by comparison.
Man, I KNOW -- they didn't hire me either. Totally evil.
And I even baked them a cake shaped like the internet!
sic transit gloria mundi
I googled for it, but nothing really evil came up
Oh, wait
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
Sure, like /dev/null is the fastest place to write backups to.
I can't wait for them to rewrite it in Java!
Not likely :)
You can't grep a dead tree.
select $1,000,000,000 from SUN into MyPockets. Who would say no? The wheelbarrow image is most appropriate image for this story...
...shortly after mysql.com is slashdotted.
"We always liked PostgreSQL better anyway..."
Notepad is a great storage system. In fact, I have at least ten "New Text Document.txt", "New Text Document (2).txt" files on my desktop right now. One of them has my address book in it.... let's see... is it (6)? Nope, that's my checking account register. Hmm.... could've sworn that was my address book.... shit, I'm overdrawn by $50!
(Laugh, it's not that far from the truth.... got a similar situation with text files in my ~ on my Linux box.... who needs meaningful filenames and directories when you have grep?)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
SELECT goal FROM life; did not work as expected.
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
And by the way, I set up a meeting to show the finished [vague notion] next week, get on it!
"We are the S in LAMP !"
If it gets messy at 100K likes, you can just email a copy to all your coworkers to collaborate in debugging.
Sheesh, doesn't EVERYONE do it this way?
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
...that they don't make start migrating it to Java technologies. I want a FAST database.
from 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
to 45 2F 6E 40 3C DF 10 71 4E 41 DF AA 25 7D 31 3F
"the wiki notepad on crack"
does that mean you automagically get longer sentences?
*rimshot*
Yeah, I used to have a similar problem until I figured out the perfect solution.
First of all, create a directory for each file on the Desktop. Next, open all of the files until you find your checking account register, right-button drag the file to your newly created "checking account register" directory and select "Create shortcut here" from the menu that appears when you drop the file.
It will take a little bit of time to start with, but it's certainly worth it. For example, to open your checking file register, all you have to do is open "checking account register" on the desktop and the open "Shortcut to New Document (6).txt"!
Don't thank me. The knowledge that my small insight has helped another human being is all the thanks I need.
I don't therefore I'm not.