Sun and Oracle
It was announced the other day that Oracle were to aquire Sun Microsystems. This seems to make sense for both companies given the economic situation and the relative technologies that they both develop but it does beg the question - What does this mean for MySQL?
Sun bought MySQL last year and promised continued development of the worlds most loved open source database server but will the new owners who develop perhaps the biggest database engine in world feel the same way. Or will MySQL benefit from some Oracle development and code? It’s not like it couldn’t do with it! Replication for a start. Only the future will tell, might we see MySQL getting sold on?
To be fair they do solve different problems and so we might see that the migration path from MySQL to Oracle is made simpler for companies that want to move that way. Almost at the same time MySQL/Sun made the announcement that MySQL 5.4 is on its way and it looks on the face of it that serious development of the MySQL engine has been taking place since Sun took control.
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