Sun to Aquire MySQL
So, I am at least an hour or two late at this and everyone and their three brothers has already blogged about it..but:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml
In the past I have worked on Sun products a great deal. I was a system administrator for almost 10 years and probably half of the time was spent on Sun servers and the other half of the time was on Linux. I honestly still get warm fuzzy feelings when I walk into a data center and see a purple case. Their engineering is first class. Their support is phenomenal.
I think that they CAN help engineer a better MySQL server. MySQL has very good engineering talent. More (highly paid, highly motivated and very intelligent) minds working on MySQL can only be better. Versions 6.0 and 6.1 could be very interesting.
That being said I have two concerns:
- Sun is a huge behemoth of a company. Even MySQL could get swallowed up in the corporate beurocracy. Things could stall.
- Sun concentrates their energy on running MySQL on Solaris.
Those being said, I doubt either one will happen. You don’t spend a billion dollars on something and then set it aside. And while MySQL on Solaris will probably get more attention than it has in the past I suspect Linux and other operating systems will continue to get support. That being said, maybe I can convince management to buy me this now:
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“And while MySQL on Solaris will probably get more attention than it has in the past I suspect Linux and other operating systems will continue to get support.”
You are right on the ball. Jonathan Schwartz has confirmed that MySQL will remain to be actively developed and supported for all the platforms.
I just hope that Oracle and Sun won’t interfere with the necessary collaboration between Innodb and MySQL.