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.

Comments

Rewrite in Java

[filbranden]

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.

;-)

Re:Sun?

[Goaway]

Sun are very experienced in pushing utter junk software, so mysql was a natural fit for them.

Re:Sun?

[Xest]

To destroy competition and make PostgreSQL even stronger ;) ?

It's a scam!

[pain]

Hey Sun, don't fall for this scam. It doesn't even support full outer joins.

Re:Sun?

[TheGratefulNet]

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.

Re:Sun?

[TheGratefulNet]

"He was fired in February 2004, nine days before Google's IPO was announced, allegedly costing him US$38 million in stock options"

go ahead - tell me that isn't cold fucking blooded evil.

Re:Im a sun employee

[Brummund]

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.)

Uh oh

[Animats]

This isn't good. Sun has a tendency to bury a basically good technology under a ton of half-debugged crap. Watch for "you have to have Java xxx installed to run MySQL".