Sun obtains MySQL

[Daniel_DBS]

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Sun has sent shockwaves through the open-source software community today by acquiring open-source database company MySQL AB. The MySQL database is regarded as one of the core components of open source server infrastructure, the so-called Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) stack. This acquisition will pit Sun against proprietary database vendors like Oracle and also open-source middleware vendors like Red Hat. More significantly, this appears to be part of a larger strategy by Sun to position its own technologies as an alternative to the conventional LAMP stack.

Interesting! Now lets see how long it is before Sun buys out PHP as well

Although MySQL will be working closely with Sun, Arno also emphasizes the fact that the LAMP stack is here to stay. "I don't expect [closer ties with Java and Solaris] in any way to be at the cost of other popular operating systems... or development environments," says Arno. "MySQL grew with LAMP and MySQL without LAMP at its core is simply unimaginable." Despite Arno's confidence that the acquisition will not impact MySQL's role in the conventional LAMP stack, MySQL users who are wary of Sun could potentially meander towards vendor-neutral alternatives like PostgreSQL.

[Gwaihir]

Interesting! Now lets see how long it is before Sun buys out PHP as well

What would be the point? They have a solid programming language, Java. Taking the lead in a solid Linux distribution seems a more likely next move to me, seeing as how they've all but given up on their Solaris. Perhaps they could team up with Debian or Ubuntu?

[elflaco]

What would be the point? They have a solid programming language, Java. Taking the lead in a solid Linux distribution seems a more likely next move to me, seeing as how they've all but given up on their Solaris. Perhaps they could team up with Debian or Ubuntu?

Actually, that might be a possibility.

I just read an article recently (I'll try to dig it up) about how programmers are starting to abandon Java for PHP.


Hmmmm....

[Gwaihir]

This one perhaps? He does make some valid points and clearly he was right about MySQL being ready for take over. Then again similar things have been said about Ruby on Rails taking over from PHP, which haven't materialized and the author, Andi Gutmans, put the "nd" in Zend, the leading company behind PHP, so he isn't exactly impartial.