Comments on: Sun Acquiring MySQL

By: Dabido

Dabido — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:31:37 +0000

ipohchai - Sun has heaps of Open Source stuff under their belt. They’re hardware vendors NOT software vendors. Almost everything on Sun boxes comes free from somewhere [almost, but not all]. The problem is buying the $10,000 Sun box to run it all on.

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:44:44 +0000

ipohchai,

To be honest, it’s not going to be beneficial for Sun to altogether stop licensing MySQL under the GPL.

The way I see it, they’ll definitely be integrating MySQL more closely with their current product lines. There’d probably be an “enterprise” version of MySQL or a new RDBMS product based on MySQL that they’ll be charging for.

The bottom line though, is that it won’t matter too much for us end users.

By: ipohchai

ipohchai — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:47:11 +0000

yeah, but will Mysql still remain as OSS and free for everyone