Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-21 Thread Moon's Father
Waiting for more interesting points. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Manish Gupta manish.in@gmail.comwrote: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/ anyone saw this ?? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:54 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: Yep. In particular the anti-trust

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-21 Thread russbucket
Arthur Fuller wrote: I think that you'e being paranoid. IMO, Oracle will continue to support and develop mySQL. Further, I think that these concerns about the future of mySQL overlook the points behind the purchase: 1. To obtain the Sun hardware and thus provide a complete hardware and

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-21 Thread Arthur Fuller
I too am a big entusiast of Sun's VirtualBox, and I hope that nothing goes sideways on this product. A. effects and that is VirtualBox. I've used MySQL for years and hope Oracle does not stop it, but you never know with Ellison encharge! Just my 2 cents. --

RE: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-21 Thread Joshua Gordon
I hope I start getting paid what Oracle DBA's make. -Original Message- From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:fuller.art...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:04 PM To: russbucket Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Sun bought by Oracle I too am a big entusiast of Sun's VirtualBox

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Whats the future of 'MySQL' under Oracle ? On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Andy Shellam andy-li...@networkmail.euwrote: I've just been made aware by a client that Oracle have purchased Sun Microsystems. The article below on Sun's website mentions that Oracle are committed to Linux and other

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Andy Smith
Only time will tell what will happen, but I have read a few articles saying Oracle had been interested specifically in buying MySQL from Sun as it gives them an open source DB offering (which they dont have now right?), and that brings with it contact with potential customers for support

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread mos
At 08:31 AM 4/20/2009, you wrote: Only time will tell what will happen, but I have read a few articles saying Oracle had been interested specifically in buying MySQL from Sun as it gives them an open source DB offering (which they dont have now right?), and that brings with it contact with

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Curtis Maurand
I figure that they'll either kill mysql or they'll limit the commnunity version in ways that will make you purchase a commercial version if you want to continue to use it. I figure there will be heavy migrations to open source alternatives. --C Andy Shellam wrote: I've just been made aware

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread mos
At 08:22 AM 4/20/2009, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Whats the future of 'MySQL' under Oracle ? Here is a blog on ZDNet in case anyone is interested. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598tag=nl.e539 Mike -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Arthur Fuller
I think that you'e being paranoid. IMO, Oracle will continue to support and develop mySQL. Further, I think that these concerns about the future of mySQL overlook the points behind the purchase: 1. To obtain the Sun hardware and thus provide a complete hardware and software solution. 2. To

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Brawley
... the points behind the purchase: 1. To obtain the Sun hardware and thus provide a complete hardware and software solution. 2. To further optimize Oracle to take full advantage of the Solaris OS. 3. To continue to support Linux. 4. To get Java and thus penetrate the mobile device

RE: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
From: Peter Brawley [mailto:peter.braw...@earthlink.net] An optimist wrote that. A pessimist, Larry Dignan at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598tag=nl.e539, wrote point six: Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that open source database mess with the margins of

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Bergen
I don't think the purchase was about MySQL at all. I'm sure Oracle is far more interested in java, zfs, and solaris than they are MySQL. MySQL is just an added bonus that will go well with their acquisition of Innobase Oy a few years ago. Oracle didn't kill InnoDB and it's not very likely that

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread John Meyer
I'm wondering what the DOJ is going to think of that deal. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering what the DOJ is going to think of that deal. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=kaushalshri...@gmail.com

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Claudio Nanni
We are talking of financial moves here. I think nothing will be touched at least for first years, I don't see product or services overlapping. Oracle is one thing, MySQL another. If they are so crazy to 'shut-down' MySQL, the second after there would be the fork, MySQL could be 'closed', but

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Backhaus
Quite frankly, if MySQL gets neglected in the future, I'll switch to PostgreSQL, as simple as that. However, the acquisition of Sun does place Oracle in an interesting market position - the enterprise Apple as mentioned in the ZDNet article. Let's see and hope the best. Cheers, Michael On

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread John Meyer
Yep. In particular the anti-trust division of the DOJ. Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering what the DOJ is going to think of that deal. -- MySQL General Mailing List

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread Manish Gupta
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/ anyone saw this ?? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:54 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: Yep. In particular the anti-trust division of the DOJ. Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com