If you review the recent years of Oracle’s history, you’ll see that its purchase of Sun makes perfect sense. Oracle has tried to get in the OS business (Oracle Ubreakable Linux), the hardware business with their different partnerships (e.g.: Hewlett Packard Partner Relationship), and even into the MySQL business back when they bought InnoBase (Oracle and Innobase).

MySQL was in many ways a leader for the Open Source industry, both in the way the way it marketed OSS and in the way MySQL the company was built. It’s the latter aspect that worries me. MySQL was a world pioneer in having a global workforce and this shaped both its culture and products.

When I joined MySQL in 2001, 90% of the company was distributed outside their native Swedish offices. (When Sun bought it, it …

Just like this time last year (I hope this isn't a perennial event) everybody is expressing fear, uncertainty and doubt about the future of MySQL in the wake of yet another acquisition. What is going to happen?

MySQL isn't going to disappear tomorrow. Or even in the next ten years. Why?

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• The internet runs on the LAMP stack. There is so much technological infrastructure dedicated to MySQL that anybody would be crazy to think that it is going to disappear anytime soon. Hell, lots of companies still run 4.0 databases.
  
• The MySQL codebase is GPL. Even if Oracle just closed up the MySQL office and set everybody packing the source code is ours to use, to repackage, to redistribute and to enhance. Drizzle already exists as a fork and others could emerge. I don't think that forks and alternative distributions are bad.
  
  So if MySQL isn't going to disappear, what is …

It’s true — http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/companies/21sun.html?_r=1&hp.

Ronald Bradford asked, “What does this mean for MySQL?”

Lots of people are going to be proclaiming that it is the death of MySQL, as they did when Oracle bought InnoDB.

But it is not. MySQL and Oracle may both be databases, but they are not competitors. To say they are competitors is like saying that an upscale bar and the corner convenience store are competitors because you can get soft drinks, coffee and tea at both. There are many applications for which Oracle is the appropriate solution, and there’s no reason to even try to see if MySQL can do the same job. Similarly there are many applications for which MySQL is the clearly appropriate solution and there’s no need …

Everyone who was up @ 7:30am seems to feel tired and subdued.  Everyone I heard from is worried about what this means for MySQL.  Some people have taken to extreme joking running around with cracks about the evil empire and “hail Larry”.    It’s a very tense mood all in all.   The feeling seems to be that the announcement was timed to have maximum effect, others seem to think it was timed so they can all bring us over to the assimilation machine and get our implants embedded in our brains.  I am sure you are going to be hearing a lot of fear & uncertaintity, rumors and the like over the week but their is still a long way to go, and nothing will be worked out officially for months.

That being said it does feel like the ” The end of the world as we know it”  … welcome to black monday.

See Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems (NY Times, 20 April 2009). Wellwell, that’s quite interesting, isn’t it… as to what it means for MySQL, ZFS, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, Java, and numerous other tidbits, that remains to be seen.

It must be a buzzy kind of day at the MySQL Users Conference 2009, with this news coming in just before the opening… and it’s only been a year since Sun bought MySQL and Jonathan Schwartz did a key note at the conference. I’m sure we’ll hear a lot more from a lot of people, not necessarily content but definitely conjecture and pre-emptive opinions

See Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems (NY Times, 20 April 2009). Wellwell, that's quite interesting, isn't it... as to what it means for MySQL, ZFS, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, Java, and numerous other tidbits, that remains to be seen.

It must be a buzzy kind of day at the MySQL Users Conference 2009, with this news coming in just before the opening... and it's only been a year since Sun bought MySQL and Jonathan Schwartz did a key note at the conference. I'm sure we'll hear a lot more from a lot of people, not necessarily content but definitely conjecture and pre-emptive opinions ;-)

The AP is reporting that Oracle will buy Sun shares for $9.50 per share, 10 cents more than IBM's reported offer, which fell through. The deal is expected to close in this summer.

Oracle estimates that Sun will contribute more than $1.5 billion and $2 billion to Oracle's profits in the first two years, respectively.

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Sun and Oracle today announced a definitive agreement for Oracle to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash. The Sun Board of Directors has unanimously approved the transaction. It is anticipated to close this summer.What will happened in MySQL, JAVA.I think its enough.http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-04/sunflash.20090420.1.xml

Having written about what I think is cool about the upcoming MySQL Conference and the MySQL Camp, now I want to finish up with what I’d like to see at the Percona Performance Conference. Just to recap, this is a conference we created to serve those who want to learn about performance — not “learn about MySQL,” not “learn about database performance,” just learn about performance, period.

I want to see everything. I think this is going to be the single best conference I’ve ever been to. Even the way the conference is organized is exciting. For example, it’s running from early morning till late at night, nonstop. The sessions are also (mostly) only 25 minutes. This means if you decide a session isn’t all that interesting, you didn’t spend much time on it, and you don’t have long to wait for the next one.

So here is a small sample of the …

A couple of years back, MySQL embarked upon a strategy to be more open and encourage third-party companies to create their own pluggable storage engines.  The strategy was partly a response to Oracle's acquisition of InnoDB, which was at the time the leading transactional storage engine.  Since then, we've seen new storage engines announced and released every year, typically at the April MySQL Users Conference.

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