MySQL to become a SUN product

[DrewJensen]

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database

[ccornell]

Interesting eh? It is going to take a while to get the whole thing finalized.. but in the end... hmmm

[DrewJensen]

In a way it is a home coming - MySQL started as a Solaris only RDBMS way back when.

[yorick]

I wonder where this will leave HSQL, looking like MySQL-Lite perhaps. We live in interesting times, it is true.

[megrisoft]

I hope it will remain free and open source!

[ccornell]

I hope it will remain free and open source!

Why wouldn't it? I don't understand why everyone thinks Sun will pull MySQL out of the open source arena. The source is out there in the wild and protected by the GPL, and Sun fully supports the GPL and the philosophy behind it.
Sun's business is all about open source.

Please read here: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/in_a_vortex ... as the CEO states

Will you change MySQL's choice of license (the GPL)?
No. As you can see with Java, and with Glassfish (and NetBeans and OpenOffice), we're huge supporters of the GPL.

[saphil]

Isn't it funny how people (at least a few) want to paint Sun with MS colours? I would be scared-er of Oracle getting MySQL (presuming it was possible. Does anybody remember PeopleSoft?

[kingfisher]

In a few years' time, we may be asking "Does anybody remember MySql".

[TerryE]

In a few years' time, we may be asking "Does anybody remember Microsoft".

[kingfisher]

OK. Your hypothesis trumps my hypothesis.