I was awaken at around 5 this morning, here at the MySQL Users
Conference, by a fellow coworker home in Sweden, with the
news that Oracle had bought MySQL. This was a bit of a surprise, but also
a bit of fun, as I used to work for Oracle, way way back in the
1980's. I was a Sales Engineer most of the time there, just as I
am with MySQL, except a Sales Engineer at Oracle is a Pre-Sale
enginer (or at least that used to be the case).
This is sure going to be a fun and interesting Users Conference,
I can tell you that! And I think I have some of my old Oracle
business-cards at home, and also some Oracle T-Shirts and stuff,
so I can start being an Oracle dude again. Well, well, that was
an interesting turn of events, I'll keep you posted!
/Karlsson
Wondering if my …
The big news to kick off this week was Oracle’s announced acquisition of Sun Microsystems. There is already a lot of discussion of the integration challenges, how Oracle is getting into hardware (or as Matt Asay describes it, having an ‘iPod moment’) and of course, the implications for open source software. What stands out to me is the fact that the world’s biggest proprietary database player — one of few software giants that still sells and supports primarily proprietary software — will own the world’s most popular open source database, MySQL. It is unclear how significantly MySQL figures into the deal, but given Sun spent $1b acquiring it and further invested in its enterprise readiness and use, …
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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 …
[Read more]Oracle's bid for Sun takes the industry back to the olden days of integrated hardware and software, and in the process reveals a great way to monetize open source.
Interesting news this morning, just as the 2009 MySQL Conference is starting. As is being reported all over the place, Oracle has agreed to buy Sun at $9.50 per share, giving them to a ton of great technology (Solaris, ZFS, MySQL, DTrace, etc.).
One one of the biggest threats to Oracle's core database business (at the low end, at least) for a while now has been MySQL. And now they're poised to own MySQL after Sun bought it not long ago. (It seems like yesterday that Oracle bought Innobase.)
As I noted a while back, …
[Read more]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.
Stunning news today that Oracle has offered to buy Sun Microsystems. This is sending the MySQL community reeling, as they begin their MySQL Conference & Expo today. Everyone's talking about whether this change is good for MySQL.My first thought is: it's not over till it's over. These deals have a way of falling through at the last minute. Just look at Microsoft's attempts to acquire Yahoo!.
The MySQL Performance Schema feature is now publicly available.
The launchpad URL is
https://code.launchpad.net/~marc.alff/mysql-server/mysql-6.0-perfschema