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Well, that's the news today, it was announced while MySQL has its not-quite-annual full staffmeeting in Florida.

Lots of people have already blogged on this, and various IRC channels have been chatting.... definitely interesting news, it seems. I didn't blog earlier because a) I don't follow any news that closely, as it tends to just warps your brain (try having CNN in the background for a few days - guh) and b) I wanted to have a little ponder on this first before writing something.

So... I think it's good news, overall. MySQL was heading for NASDAQ, and I've always regarded that as an evil mix of a bad idea with a very serious risk. Someone called the Sun acquisition a "safe haven" for MySQL, and in this context I agree with it. Better than floating on the stock market, and getting gobbled up.

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Everyone else is blogging about it, I may as well throw in my $0.02...

I'm glad Sun has purchased MySQL, but I think they have quite a bit of cleanup to do. To start with, I hope they release the Enterprise Monitor to the open source community. Its a good tool, but needs some extension.

I've heard that some folks are worried that PostgreSQL will become a white elephant. I'm not sure that will happen. I'd like to see a port of PostgreSQL as a new engine in the MySQL server....as crazy as it sounds.

Dave Rosenberg, Ashlee Vance, and I are doing an emergency Open Season podcast with Marten Mickos, CEO of MysQL, and Rich Green EVP of Software at Sun Microsystems, and they've said some things that blew me away. You'll get to hear them all when we publish the podcast ...

I don’t often beg for stuff, but this is not for me per se.  The Phorum team is raising money to get all of our team (all 3 of us) to Santa Clara for MySQL Conference.  We will be part of the DotOrg Pavilion again this year.  We thank MySQL for inviting us.  We just about have all we need for that part of our fund raising.
We also have need of a new server.  We don’t need much.  But, our old Celeron is feeling the pressure of all the new things we are doing with our documentation system.   This is where I am hoping some of you out there can help.  Surely somewhere, someone has a dual Xeon with an older raid card in it that they don’t need anymore.  …

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Back in October last year I wrote about a peculiar MySQL error message: Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: No such file or directory This error only seems to occur on Windows (Server 2003 in this case). While the first part is clear - a port could not be bound, because it was already occupied by another process - the second part does not make any sense. We got in contact about this with

As many of you may have already heard, Sun officially announced their purchase of  MySQL today.  After the last few years with Oracle pushing Linux and commodity hardware, Sun has certainly taken the hit.  I guess this is their turn to hit back.

With MySQL 6.0 out, increasingly we find the full compliment of sophisticated database features in MySQL.  But a lot of the devil is in the details.  Where Oracle has had problems with the sheer size of the codebase, and addressing security vulnerabilities, and other bugs in a timely manner, MySQL has the problem of a mature codebase.  Some of these features are newly available, and if my experiences with replication are any indication, often have hidden gotchas and “features” which are not emphasized in the literature.

The next question on my mind is, how does Oracle’s purchase and now …

I’m sure by now you would have read the great news that is Sun Microsystems acquisition of MySQL!

Sun have been forging ahead in the Open Source world with OpenSolaris, an Operating System that scales to Enterprise proportions and is an ideal host for the number one Open Source Database Server that is MySQL.

Whether this will have any impact on the MySQL Linux / FreeBSD / Windows offerings is something I am sure the community will be watching closely, but in my experience Java runs much faster on Solaris as it can take advantage of the …

I have been working for MySQL for about six months now and I have mixed feelings over the big deal with Sun. Looking at the market out there it does seem like financially it is the right move, the market is starting to feel the weight of the housing crisis and many are saying a recession is looming. In my opinion this makes the deal more attractive in financial terms opposed to a possible IPO would have. I guess I am approaching the impact on the consulting group with guarded optimism. We will have a great deal of opportunities moving forward, but they will be different then what we have been doing in the past. My background is from larger organizations, I left those organizations specifically because I no longer enjoyed not being able to take a large enough role to truly shape things ( you simply do not feel like your contributions matter in some organizations ) . I figured with MySQL I would have the opportunity to have a great deal more input on …