It’s a crying shame that Sun with Java, Solaris, ZFS, Open Office, MySQL and the work Sun has done with PostgreSQL has fallen to Oracle. I’ve used all of the former products and never used Oracle for ‘obvious reasons’.
After reading Om Malik’s commentory…
Full Analysis of the $7.4B Oracle-Sun Deal.
I could hardly wait to read Monty’s blog which confirms in the first sentence, the expected:
“Tonight at 4:30 AM, USA Pacific time, my phone started to ring; it was a call from a Sun employee saying that Oracle has bought Sun and he wanted to join Monty Program Ab.”
Thankfully, I’ve been ‘over it’ with regard to bloat in MySQLÂ for years and am thrilled about Drizzle DB
Open Solaris already looked like a non-event (I recently started installing ‘Trusted Debian’ on our low-end SPARC servers), Open Office is replaceable, Java is IBM (who have Open Source kudos) as much as Sun which just leaves ZFS which is so full of promise but as an Oracle property?
Interesting footnote from the Wikipedia entry for MySQL
“In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase OY, the Finnish company that developed the InnoDB storage engine that allows MySQL to provide such functionality as transactions and foreign keys. A press release by Oracle that was issued after the acquisition mentioned that the contracts that make the company’s software available to MySQL AB would be due for renewal (and presumably renegotiation) some time in 2006. During the MySQL Users Conference in April 2006, MySQL issued a press release which confirmed that MySQL and Innobase OY agreed to a multi-year extension of their licensing agreement.”
Also note that Sun has/had only completed open-sourcing about 98% of the code in Java.
