During the last month, I have had the opportunity to be involved in three MySQL training classes that have included Sun employees. Without exception, every Sun employee has shown a lot of enthusiasm about the potential for MySQL and Sun. Every Sun employee has gone out of their way to welcome MySQL employees. There have been a lot of excellent discussions on the potential of Sun and MySQL

When people think of MySQL they normally think of MySQL running across multiple Intel servers running Red Hat, SuSE or Windows. This is great for small and medium sized organizations. However, adding a number of Intel boxes and dealing with heating, electricity, power and storage is not an ideal scenario for larger organizations.

As MySQL grows in popularity, I believe more organizations are

MySQL Documentation: dev.mysql.com

Sun Documentation: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs

Zones: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/zones/

Resource Pools: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592/6mhahuolg?a=view

ZFS (New File System): http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp

SMF (Service Management Facility): http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/04/13/using-solaris-smf.html

I don't know if Sun still offers those Sun leather jackets, they were pretty cool. I need to figure out how to get one. Sun areas of interest for MySQL DBAs include: Sun Clusters and how they work with MySQL Cluster.MySQL work and Sun Zones.MySQL works and ZFS.SMF.