Sun buys MySQL: all upside for coporate markets

Wow - Sun bagged MySQL (more, more, more , more, full wrapup). As painful as it is to see a fave get snapped up, assuming that Sun allows the sbu some level of autonomy, this is all upside. I know my blue chip soon-to-be-former employer wouldn’t touch MySQL for a production system (say what you will about that policy), but certainly would touch a low cost DB off of Sun’s product shelf.

For big enterprise stuff, behemoth status carries a lot of decision-making weight, and Sun certainly has that. From a legal liability perspective (someone to sue), a business continuity perspective (Sun will be around), and a support and stability perspective, putting MySQL inside a Sun wrapper makes it an option for the first time.

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