[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Joshua Boyd]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:51 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Nadine Miller wrote:
>
>> Bill Bradford wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:15:03PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>> What, on god's green earth, is the multiple that they valued the
>>>> MySQL
>>>> organization? 100 times annual revenue? 200 times? Sun's market
>>>> cap is just
>>>> over $12 BN, is MySQL really worth 1/12th of Sun?
>>>
>>> "keeping Oracle from buying MySQL" is worth $1BN.
>>>
>>
>> And gives Sun a backup position (and possibly even a lever) since
>> Oracle
>> has been threatening to dump Oracle on Solaris for a while.  (If you
>> question the latter, why else crow about Linux being Oracle's primary
>> development platform?)
>
> Interesting thing though: Oracle owns the file format used by MySQL.
> They bought innova or whatever it is called some time back.
>

It is only one of the filestores used by MySQL.

Oracle can't withdraw it, they can only stop supporting it.

And MySQL can always fall back to MyISAM if need be until Falcon is  
up to speed.