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

Feb. 15, 2006:

“We will be part of a larger company, but it will be called MySQL” Mickos said.

Sigh…

oracle!

While everyone is sleeping and preparing for four busy days of MySQL Conference, here, in Santa Clara – I started getting SMSes asking if I already learnt PL/SQL, and here, I’m jetlagged, and finding out that I work for another company.

If they don’t kill MySQL, InnoDB and MySQL will finally be together.

If they kill MySQL, I’ll have to look for a job. Will anyone use MySQL then, or will I have to fall back to more generic non-MySQL work I’ve been doing for my hobby projects, teeeheeee.

And for now, I see 6AM faces showing up, and greeting Oracle buddies – some jetlagged, some just early birds.

A new white paper has just been released on mysql.com at http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_wp_cluster_deploy_opencge.php

Open Source Carrier Grade hardware and software stack

Abstract:

Open source technologies and commodity, carrier-grade hardware can combine to create a highly available, scalable and responsive infrastructure to deploy next-generation communications services. This paper examines a solution stack based on integrating Sun GlassFish Communications Server, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database, the OpenSolaris operating system, Sun Netra ATCA blades and Sun open storage products into a carrier-grade solution for converged services …

Today's announcement that Oracle has agreed to buy Sun definitely starts the MySQL conference which begins this morning with a bang. I expect Oracle InnoDB presentations to be standing room only! Oracle announcement: http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.htmlSun announcement: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp The MySQL conference just got very interesting for the attendees!

The other day I wrote about what I did inside of Drizzle to create the new Protocol plugin type. A few people have asked me to expand on this a bit more, so here is a diagram of how this will work:

As you can see, you will be able to communicate with the server not just through the traditional client library, but through anything that can implement the Protocol class. The first new class will be the new libdrizzle (which also supports MySQL protocol so Drizzle can talk to those clients), but soon we’ll also be able to handle direct HTTP, Gearman, and possibly memcached requests. This will eliminate the need for the client driver altogether in some applications (for example, an AJAX request could query Drizzle directly and ask for a JSON object to be returned by the module).

You will also be able to do various local or embeddable interfaces through this same interface. …

You might have noticed a couple changes to PlanetMySQL over the last 24 hours... Let me keep it brief. On the regular planet pages you might have noticed a thumbs up and a thumbs down graphics. You can now vote up or vote down entries for PlanetMySQL.

Why did we do this? Primarily we want to let you tell other users what you think are "good" or "bad" articles. Let "collective intelligence" reign!

Now, we've chosen an odd option for this: we've limited the number of votes to five per day per MySQL account (yes, you need to have a MySQL account to vote). Now for the duration of the MySQL Users Conference we will increase the number of votes to ten (10) per account/24 hours starting Monday April 20th evening until Friday April 24th as the number of blog entries tend to go crazy this week.

Why limit? We want you to think about what makes a good blog entry and …

In the recently released Sphinx version 0.9.9-rc2 there is a support for MySQL wire protocol and SphinxQL - SQL-like language to query Sphinx indexes. This support is currently in its early preview stage but it is still fun to play with.

A thing to mention - unlike MySQL Storage Engines, some of which as InfoBright or KickFire take over execution after parsing, Sphinx MySQL support has nothing to do with MySQL - it is implementation of the wire protocol from scratch.

For this test I was not interesting in the full text search performance, we already know Sphinx is much faster than MySQL build in full text search. I was rather interested to look performance of other queries, not using Full Text Search.

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I’m not personally there this year, but Walter Heck will be. In case you haven’t met Walter yet, photo enclosed

He’s a techie, like you, and he’d love to meet you and hear how you’re using MySQL and surrounding technologies and what things might make your life easier in terms of application architecture, development, deployment, maintenance, and so on.

This may or may not fit with the services that Open Query provides, but the key point is to listen, not sell. If there’s a good match, of course that’s fine too!

As a sidenote, just to pre-empt the inevitable question of “Arjen why are you not here?”: flying over to the US has always been fine, but coming back is a pile of grief every time taking multiple weeks to recover. I’ve never had that issue with for instance …