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Sun Buys MySQL

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @01:03AM 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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Re:Sun? by Xest · 2008-01-16 02:00 · Score: 1, Troll

To destroy competition and make PostgreSQL even stronger ;) ?
It's a scam! by pain · 2008-01-16 02:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Hey Sun, don't fall for this scam. It doesn't even support full outer joins.
Re:Sun? by TheGratefulNet · 2008-01-16 02:17 · Score: 0, Troll

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brian+reid+google&btnG=Google+Search

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5283653.html

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9792046-7.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)

took me all of a minute to find that.

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Re:Im a sun employee by Brummund · 2008-01-16 03:37 · Score: 0, Troll

Uh, if you want RI, ACID, triggers and stored procedures, or in general, a decent relational database; I cannot see how the aquisition of MySQL will solve that.

(Go ahead, you drooling MySQL fanbois, mod me down, but rest assured, I will smile smugly as you desperately look up the above mentioned key features of a relation database on Wikipedia.)