The latest from the MySQL community

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:

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!

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

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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