RE: [Nolug] world ends, MySQL bought by SUN

Hi Brett.

I remember when Sun bought Cobalt. They simply let them die and stranded the
Cobalt owners. It seems that they simply bought them to eliminate the
competition for their product.

John

    John Souvestre - Southern Star & Integrated Data Systems - www.sstar.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@covington.redfishnetworks.com [mailto:owner-
> nolug@covington.redfishnetworks.com] On Behalf Of B. Estrade
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:25 AM
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] world ends, MySQL bought by SUN
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:43:54AM -0500, Donnie Cameron wrote:
> > Or maybe Sun botches this up and we all have to move to Postgres!
>
> For $1 billion, I think Sun might try to not screw this thing up :)
>
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/sun_acquires_mysql.html
>
> Brett
>
> >
> > --Donnie
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2008 9:39 AM, Chris Jones <techmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That might not be so bad...Sun controls OO.o also, and it's a great
> > > project. And it says that Sun plans on leaving MySQL as an open source
> > > project (I doubt they have any other choice by law) so it won't become
> > > closed or anything. It could be good with some backing by a large
> > > corporation. Also, with a big name backing it, it will get the attention
> it
> > > deserves, and be given the same respect as MS SQL and Oracle. It will no
> > > longer be the database associated with "hackers" and corporations will be
> > > more eager to use it.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 16, 2008 8:01 AM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Read it and weep. And weep. And weep.
> > > >
> > > > http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Joey Kelly
> > > > < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
> > > > http://joeykelly.net
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris Jones
> > > http://www.industrialarmy.com
>
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> B. Estrade
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