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Sun Buys MySQL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-see-that-coming dept.

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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  1. Jonathan Schwartz's Blog by sucker_muts · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is quite interesting news! Check out what Jonathan Schwartz has to say about this:

    http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/

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  2. Re:Great news by Too+Much+Noise · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oracle bought both InnoDB and BerkeleyDB. Those still happen to be two of the better engine options of MySQL.

  3. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    One can only hope that they will be using this to replace the database that comes in Open Office. Wouldn't SQLite be a better choice for that? MySQL is a bit to heavy for use in an office application. SQLite was designed to be embedded into applications, is quite powerful, fast, and released in the public domain.
  4. Re:I wonder by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Informative
    One can only hope that they will be using this to replace the database that comes in Open Office.

    You can already use MySQL as the database engine for Open Office.

    The development environment in OOo (Base) is a database client, not a database engine. Base does bundle the HSQLDB database engine, but even that is just XML tables, and shouldn't be used for anything serious.

    As far as the quality of Base, yep it's rough, but it's also brand new for OOo v2. It's being actively developed, and there are plansto use it to allow users to share data from several FOSS packages within the suite.

    * Btw, I know you were just trolling, but I thought this was worth an answer, since desktop databases are a badly misunderstood class of software.

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  5. Re:Rewrite in Java by LarsWestergren · · Score: 5, Informative

    Damn it! Now they will rewrite it in Java. It will no longer be the fastest database engine, after the rewrite, it will certainly be the slowest.

    Sun already has an embeddable db engine written in Java called Derby. It has pretty impressive features and performance.

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