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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. Re:Does anyone know why is my karma rated as terri by DeeQ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sure it should, if you dont have the common sense to go AC when doing dumb post like that you deserve the negitive karma :)

  2. THE NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HOW IT BURNS!

    Seriously, how the fuck do I view -1, threaded?

    1. Re:THE NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM! by coolGuyZak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Beware, they recently added a feature that guerrilla-spams you with ThinkGeek ads. Ugh.

  3. Re:Does anyone know why is my karma rated as terri by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you don't actually post anything, it isn't really the first post, is it?

  4. Re:Does anyone know why is my karma rated as terri by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've done it again

    By "it", you mean "proved I have nothing worthwhile to do with my time other then sitting here, waiting for a new slashdot post. I'm even too inept to search other places for technology news or to do something significant with my life that I'll one day appear on slashdot in a duped article"?

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  5. Re:I wonder by cp.tar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Man is a wolf to man.

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  6. Re:Does anyone know why is my karma rated as terri by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Karma, shawarma: Dharma!

  7. Re:Im a sun employee by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you having a Whopper Freakout yet?

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  8. Re:I wonder by bytesex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man is a like wolf to mankind; 'man' 'to other men' 'wolf' (is). It kinda misses 'est' at the end, although that isn't strictly necessary.

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  9. Re:I wonder by goose-incarnated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man is a like wolf to mankind; 'man' 'to other men' 'wolf' (is). It kinda misses 'est' at the end, although that isn't strictly necessary.

    Actually, ISTR seeing this in the fifth elephant - "Every man is a wolf to other men"

    ???? Whoops - offtopic
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  10. OMFG. by Zarf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG... i think I just divided by zero.

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  11. Wouldn't it be cool by JemalCole · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish IBM (Big Blue) would buy Sun and rename the new company Blue Sun.

    1. Re:Wouldn't it be cool by moderatorrater · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Or they could buy all the rights to goatse and rename themselves black hole sun.

  12. Re:I wonder by MightyYar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    100,000+ lines... ha! Excel does indeed suck at that. I'm still not upgraded, so mine can't handle more than about 64,000 anyway :)

    My company had an extremely complicated model done in Excel and it was an absolute nightmare. My favorite is how Excel silently fails on custom functions. I successfully lobbied to get it changed to a web app (PHP and MySQL if you must know...).

    I was just wondering what the problem with putting a hundred or so contacts into Excel was. It's a pretty darn useful small database program, you know :) I shudder at the thought of mom and pop putting everything in Access.

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  13. Re:Does anyone know why is my karma rated as terri by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the h*ll is going on with the modders? Why are you modding down the people who criticize the FP troll? Mod them up.