In a vortex. That's the only way to describe the past thirty days, during which we closed out our second quarter, and put together the transaction to acquire MySQL. How'd it all start?

"That'll never happen, I've been trying for years." That's what I told Rich Green (EVP, Software at Sun) about six months ago in response to his assertion, "if there were one company I'd love to acquire, it'd be MySQL. They're an amazing company." Why'd I say it was impossible?

For nearly five years, I've been getting together for dinner with Marten Mickos, MySQL's CEO, catching up on the industry, chatting about trends and business models, and just as the dessert was about to be served... I'd say, "geez, we have so much in common, Marten, we …

This is a week full of changes. It’s been a wonderful week for me, meeting with so many MySQLers, telling the rest of the departments about our Community, having productive meetings, being acquired by Sun, and singing Karaoke with my colleagues from the Legal Team as well as performing drinking songs that get posted on YouTube.

The latest change came today. I’ll put my duties as VP Community Services on a spare flame, and focus on the integration of MySQL into Sun. Title unknown (as we’re still just planning the integration, not executing it), but something like “MySQL Ambassador to Sun”.

We want to take Sun by storm. My task will be to get out the message to Sun. “It’s not that I want you to filter the emails, but …”, said my boss Mårten. And as usual with sentences that start …

There is a japanese karaoke bar here in the Dolphin and Swan hotel (where we are finishing the the MySQL All Company Meeting). I asked the people who would find it appropriate to sing along, and there were many who did:

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My good friend Fred just blogged about his favourite set of MySQL tools including Maatkit, Querysniffer , MyTop and other interresting tools.

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I thought it was amusing that MySQL and Sun decided to make their announcement from the Sunshine state. I wasn't sure if I was going to blog about the purchase. Given the fact that I work in a Solaris environment, It'll be easier to convince management that MySQL can be used now that Sun can support us.

I've been reading the blogs, and in general I think it's great for MySQL and Sun for their future growth. I know people are hoping that Sun can help MySQL overcome some of their technical issues , and plenty of people are blogging about how much current MySQL employees may change, support and such.

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I heard from a few people about my post on the relative valuations of MySQL, JBoss, Zimbra, and XenSource. Because of a lack of data on growth trajectories, I didn't factor those into my light analysis, but anyone buying a company would seriously factor this in. In fact, as one person commented, "multiples are a factor of growth by definition of discounted cash flow based valuations."

He's absolutely right. Part of the reason that MySQL got such a great valuation is that it has significantly improved its growth in the past year. Much of this came from productizing its services (i.e., the distinction between MySQL Enterprise and Community), such that it had a compelling value proposition beyond vanilla support. …

Went to the MySQL Performance Tuning Class last week. I would highly recommend it to any DBA new to MySQL, or any MySQL DBA looking to boost their tuning skills and understanding of some of the various features as they relate to performance.The next few posts will have to do with information I gleaned from that class...It's always good to understand what's happening underneath the covers when it

We finally got WB 5.0.12 released. It was a bit complicated to get it out because everybody was on his way to the MySQL All Company Meeting here in Orlando, Fl, and with all the meetings going on. 5.0.12 is a next important step to get closer to RC. We did not fix as many bugs as for the last releases - partly caused by the vacations around X-Mas but as well because the number of serious issues is going down. There is still a lot to be done though but the light at the end of the tunnel is clearly visible already.

Btw., if somebody did not get the news yet (which I don’t think is possible), MySQL has been aquired by Sun. It is the biggest topic here at the All Company Meeting and I think it was the best thing that could happen for MySQL as a product and for the community. What it means for the MySQL Workbench project for the moment is, that nothing will change. We will continue our road to GA as planned and are currently putting together …

Since Sun announced its acquisition of MySQL for $1bn, there have been some suggestions that perhaps Sun paying too much for the open source database vendor. Calculating the multiple for MySQL has proved difficult because there are no official figures to go on, and also because many of the unofficial figures that are floating around are contradictory.

Prior to the acquisition being announced a number of revenue figures for MySQL had been publicly disclosed. For example:

• 2006 revenue of $50m, according to Cnet. …