The latest from the MySQL community

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked up MySQL's customer list: Facebook, Google, Digg, etc., but also Toyota, IKEA, Southwest Airlines, Nokia.

"The single biggest impediment to MySQLs growth is their ability to give peace of mind to global companies that want to put MySQL into mission-critical deployments."

Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL [For some reason in Orlando, Florida - was he swimming with dolphins?]:

"Wonderful industry logic underlying this transaction."

"This strengthens our ability to serve our existing customers and to serve our new customers as enterprises migrate over to open-source databases."

Rich Green, EVP, Software, Sun:

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Apparently, Larry Ellison didn't like the idea of anyone getting more than a few minutes of press for an acquisition. Following on the heels of Sun's acquisition of MySQL, Oracle is announcing that it is buying everyone else on the planet to prevent this from happening again.

No, actually, Oracle has announced that it is buying BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. The proprietary world just got even more consolidated with less choice and higher costs for buyers.

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A lot is being said about Sun's acquisition of MySQL. I think it is great news. Congratulations to the MySQL folks.

I have a lot of respect for Sun from using their systems for many years. In recent years they have moved in a good direction with respect to open source. Having MySQL under their umbrella is excellent news for them. For MySQL, being tied to Sun seems like a great place to move.

Will be very interesting to see where this goes over the next few years and how MySQL benefits from being part of Sun.

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 …