In 2006, when I joined Fotolog, I made a decision: my specialty is going to be Solaris 10 and MySQL. Very quickly, I realized that MySQL on Solaris is not very commonly deployed architecture. Atleast not as common and popular as MySQL on Linux. Since then, I have promoted MySQL/InnoDB and Solaris combo at various conferences, meetups and through podcasts.

So you can imagine, I couldn't be more happier with Sun's announcement to buy MySQL. It has been one of my top wishes for MySQL and Sun to work together. When I checked my email today, I had the following comment left on my wish list post.

"Looks …

The only criticism of the deal I could possibly give is that MySQL is still on the early phase of an exponential adoption curve and I think they’ve got lots of growth yet to come. But really, a billion dollars has a lot if not most of that growth factored into the price already. Think of what [...]

At 2 pm EST (-5 GMT), OurSQL will be interviewing Brian Aker, MySQL’s Director of Architecture, about today’s announcement that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL. If you have a burning question (about the purchase), please comment here. If you’d like to be identified, please leave your name and where you’re from in your comment [...]

Holy simoleans, Batman. I wake up this morning, write a nice little Oracle tip and then next thing I see is Josh's post about Sun->MySQL. That was totally unexpected to me.

I browsed over to PlanetMySQL to get the scoop and what do I see, Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy. I don't often agree with Matt but on this topic, I think I have to. This just makes a lot of sense for everyone involved. Sun, MySQL and MySQL users.

The first post I saw that shows concern about Sun's Postgres support is this one from the 451 Group, Sun acquiring MySQL for $1bn.

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you may have heard that sun has agreed to acquire mysql. what does that mean for me? that i still really wish i wasn?t in orlando, and was at home with my wife and puppy.

The MySQL Swedish 5 week vacation policy is no more. Now it's SUN's US style short vacations.

That's about noticable N K/yr equivalent of my personal "income" vanishing. It's going to be hard for my options to make up for that.

I figure posting this will solve the IM flood :)

Biggest question I have been getting "Is Monty happy". The short answer is yes, Kaj has written up a longer response here:
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/01/16/talking-to-mysql-founders-monty-and-david-on-sun/

My quick thoughts? I think it is pretty exciting. I think that it is good for both companies. We have good open source DNA, and they have good DNA. Many people forget now, but Sun really was the first company that we, the UNIX community, could trust with open source. Ignore the complaints you see, Sun really has been moving in the area of open source longer then anyone.

MySQL is open source and will stay that way. Neither Monty nor I would be happy if that was not the case.

Is Sun giving up PostgreSQL? I got a …

An important question for MySQLers and MySQL users alike is: “What do the MySQL Founders think of the acquisition of MySQL by Sun?”

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to explore that question further, in my first personal encounter with Sun. Already before that encounter, I had asked Monty a couple of questions.

Kaj: Monty, in the 1990s, you developed MySQL on Solaris. Why was that?

Monty: In the early years when I worked with Sun products, I was always
impressed with the stability and reliability of both hardware and
operating system. That was the reason why we used Sun Microsystems technology to develop MySQL.

Kaj: You did that development ages ago. What do you think about the Sun Microsystems of 2008?

Monty: In recent times, I have been very happy with Sun’s contributions to the Open Source world, for example Open Solaris, Java and Open Office. Also, I am …

Today we read the news that Sun is acquiring MySQL. As MySQL users and customers, it will take a bit more time for us to digest what to think of this, but for MySQL, it's certainly a good achievement, and I want to be among the first to congratulate Monty, Mårten and all other dedicated MySQL folk on this. I hope to hear soon about the sort of development and administration tools Sun is know for to reach also MySQL users, and if that turns out to be the path, then as customers we can happily welcome this event. I welcomed before Sun's open sourcing of Java, another key technology for us, and now we find our primary database solution to be under the same roof.

Update: wow, what a reaction from the stock market today. Sun paid $800M in cash plus …

Like in the past two years, there will be a DotOrg-Pavilion as part of the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 exhibition floor. We've now concluded the invitation process - the following 15 Open Source projects that support MySQL will be present to showcase their work:

• CMS made simple - a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents.
• DbBlender - a project that implements SQL support in Blender to enable remote repository capabilities.
• Entrance - an easy-to use browser for MySQL databases.
• Deki …