I just saw it on slashdot! here’s the announcement. That’s the biggest acquisition news since AMD bought ATI!
Man, what is the world coming to? At least Sun is tolerable. What if Oracle had bought them out?! What would have happened to my favorite DBMS?
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iman | 23-Jan-08 at 11:43 pm | Permalink
@ Man, what is the world coming to?
@ if Oracle had bought them out?! What @would have happened to my favorite DBMS?
so you are solicitous about the future of your favorite DBMS ?
nothing happen as it’s gpl licensed .
after two year oracle is still accompanied with peoplesoft.
yzt | 25-Jan-08 at 12:03 am | Permalink
Of course something can happen. If another competitor (in the field of DBMS) had bought MySQL, they could stop all the work the company was doing on it (I doubt the owners of MySQL AB would have sold if that was the intention though, but we are having a hypothetical discussion.)
They could stop the project, and now it was in the hands of the community. Now, I am a firm believer in the open source software development model, but we all know that it would have not been improbable that without a centralized leadership, the community could try to go in every which way and either result in many incompatible and individually featureless derivative projects, or a slow death and passage into oblivion.
iman | 25-Jan-08 at 2:31 pm | Permalink
i don’t mind it’s economic solution to buy some company and stop it ( so expensive competition )
there are two main reason to buy a company as i think :
1. buy to stop/overcome competition :
oracle bought peoplesoft , and now there is no such a peoplesoft to compete with oracle. but customers of peoplsoft get supported . it’s softwares are to be sold and it’s alive but with new management
2 . buy to start new service or start new field …
google bought Keyhole Corp company to start google map service (instead of reinventing wheel)
novel bought suse and started new field of computer industry
and i think sun is thinking about some new business solutions ; solaris , java , sparc and now Mysql , all of them are open source …
on the other hand , lets have some hypothetical discussion …
some bad company buy Mysql and stop it .
so what happens next ?
nothing happen . Mysql have lots of big customers like yahoo so it would be reasonable for someone to continue Mysql’s path and support it to make money .