[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2008/01/16 Wed PM 04:52:43 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

>On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:09:59PM +0000, Mark wrote:
>> On 16 Jan 2008, at 22:57, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> 
>> > See: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
>> >
>> > At $1BN it is a lot of money...
>> 
>> Are you kidding? MySQL drives the World Wide Web (and a ton of other  
>> stuff besides). I think it's a steal compared to the stupidly  
>> overinflated prices of startups like Facebook. It is a lot of $$$ but  
>> it's actually worth that much just because of the install base it's  
>> got. Granted most people haven't paid for it, but still, it's a  
>> captive audience.
>> 
>> I'm pretty stoked really, I think it'll make a nice addition to Sun's  
>> Open Source collection.
>
>I just hope it doesn't steal resources from Sun sponsered Postgres
>development. 

I think this will steal resources from almost every aspect of Sun - again, $1 
BN is a lot of money...

Seriously though, I think Postgres is fine - for $1 BN Sun got a whole raft of 
programmers/support technicians, etc.