Play or download the podcast here: http://technocation.org/content/oursql-episode-24%3A-sun-shining OurSQL Episode 24: “The Sun is Shining” Sun Microsystems recently announced the purchase of MySQL. In this interview the day of the announcement, OurSQL asks Brian Aker about what this means for customers, community, Sun and MySQL. Tell us what you think of Sun buying MySQL by calling the [...]
Jan
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2008
Jan
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2008
Sun Microsystems recently announced the purchase of MySQL. In this interview the day of the announcement, OurSQL asks Brian Aker about what this means for customers, community, Sun and MySQL.
Tell us what you think of Sun buying MySQL by calling the comment line or sending your voice through Odeo!
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Jan
17
2008
A friend pinged me late yesterday to talk about Sun's acquisition of MySQL. In his view, "someone had to" buy MySQL, but it was a case of buying into the past, rather than the future. Application servers like JBoss are a growth opportunity, he reasoned, while the database is largely yesterday's news.
As I noted to him, this couldn't be more wrong. As Tim O'Reilly notes, with the world increasingly database-driven, owning the database (and the data it holds) is increasingly, not decreasingly, important. The database is at the heart of the web economy, and the web economy is increasingly the heart of the global economy.
It will take us awhile to get there, but the trends all point that direction.
Does this mean that Red Hat should have acquired MySQL? Probably not, for a few good reasons.
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Jan
17
2008
I have a $10 bet (AUD or USD… whichever is worth more at the time) with Jeffrey r.e. a 5.1 GA release in $TIMEFRAME. He’s betting that it will be and I want to be proved wrong :)
(of course… who’s definition of a GA release we use hasn’t been mentioned… which will lead to a good laugh. :)
Jan
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2008
Welcome to the first entry of my blog. My name is Martin Farach-Colton. I’m co-founder and CTO of a startup called Tokutek. I’m also a professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University.
Tokutek is based on a bunch of research I did with Michael Bender (SUNY Stony Brook) and Bradley Kuszmaul (MIT). The purpose of this blog is—more or less—to explain why we started this company. What I mean is that we have a new way at looking at memory systems based on a relatively new algorithmic approach called Cache Oblivious Algorithmics. I’d like to tell you what that means for systems and users.
Our new approach is encapsulated in the products we’ll be producing over the coming months and years. But this is not the place to talk about our products. Instead, I’d like to talk about my take on memory systems, and what can be done to improve databases and file systems.
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Jan
17
2008
Article in Japanese on libmemcached:
http://alpha.mixi.co.jp/blog/?p=119
Other then being able to read the examples, I have no idea what
it is saying... but I hear it is well wriiten:)
Jan
17
2008
Its already a day old, but the news is as hot as ever. Sun will
acquire MySQL before the end of the year.
Congratulation to MySQL and Sun!
And well done to all who were involved in making this deal, in
particular, those I know personally: Marten, Monty, David, Zack
and Kaj!
As I mentioned to Kaj, I am sure that MySQL has a very bright
future under the wings of Sun. A deal for $1 billion made in 5
weeks can only mean both sides are extremely motivated to make it
work.
I have just 3 concerns:
- I hope that the MySQL web-site will not disappear into the
Sun web-site like the proverbial needle in a haystack! Sun's
download page alone is as big as the MySQL web-site ;) I would
like to see a mysql.sun.com, where we can find our way around
easily.
- And the second is similar to the first but relates to the people. There is a massive difference …
Jan
17
2008
The reaction to Sun's Intended Acquisition of MySQL ( Jonathan's blog, Video) is very positive at the end of this first day. Some of the references are:
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• Traditional Press - NetworkWorld, Forbes, Guardian, The Register, … |
Jan
17
2008
Congratulations to Marten and team on Sun’s acquisition of MySQL today! This is a billion dollar stamp of approval on the importance of the LAMP stack. This also gives another strong backing to the business model which involves giving one’s software away for free to up to 99+% of users!
This announcement comes at an interesting time for Zmanda. Just last week we announced support for the Solaris platform for our Amanda Enterprise product line. With our industry leading MySQL backup solution, we now have full coverage of operating systems and database software from the new Sun!
A great day for open source software and business of open source software!
Jan
17
2008
First off, kudos to Sun for valuing MySQL at this price. The deal represents ~36% of Sun's Cash & Cash Equivalents (of $2.7B) on hand at the end of their last quarter (Sept. 2007). But considering how cheap debt is these days, Sun could probably fund a portion of the deal through cheap debt. A reader commented on BEA and MySQL being founded in the same year, but BEA being sold for 8x more than MySQL. True, but BEA has ~$1.5B in revenue versus ~$60M for MySQL. When you take revenue into account, MySQL secured 3x more in acquisition price... READ MORE