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Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:46 am
by VladSun

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:33 am
by HuaMin
I've also got that it will also further integrate the languages of Sun, like Java.

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:05 pm
by temidayo
The fate of MySQL hangs in the balance. Awaiting trial!

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:44 am
by alex.barylski
Well thats kind of what I'm wondering...does MySQL open source stand a chance now -- or did Oracle buy out Sun in order to get at MySQL and remove it from the open source arena?

Here I am at work promoting MySQL over MSSQL because it's open source and the very existance now hangs by a thread. :P

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:48 am
by Eran
Oracle and MySQL target different market profiles, so I would think it is more of a case of Oracle trying to expand at bargain prices.

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:03 am
by arjan.top
PCSpectra wrote:Well thats kind of what I'm wondering...does MySQL open source stand a chance now -- or did Oracle buy out Sun in order to get at MySQL and remove it from the open source arena?
they cant, it is GPL

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:30 am
by jayshields
arjan.top wrote:
PCSpectra wrote:Well thats kind of what I'm wondering...does MySQL open source stand a chance now -- or did Oracle buy out Sun in order to get at MySQL and remove it from the open source arena?
they cant, it is GPL
Yeah, exactly. Why is everyone so worried about this? If they kill off MySQL or Java, it will be forked pronto.

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:05 am
by alex.barylski
they cant, it is GPL
I realize that but if Oracle stops supporting it then it's up to the community -- are there enough core contributors who are open source adovcates? Hopefully so...

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:12 am
by Eran
MySQL is already forked, check Drizzle

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:23 am
by alex.barylski
MySQL is also forked by the founder of MySQL: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Neither of which are officially supported by most LAMP stacks that I'm aware of???

I like LAMP...the peices of software work out of the box from a clean install and no tinkering around required -- usually anyways.

Trying to get PHP to play nice with a MSSQL on a Windows machine while running PHP under Linux is a nightmare/PITA. :P

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:04 pm
by Luke
I couldn't care less. I switched to PostgreSQL and I couldn't be happier. I love it. :D

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:54 pm
by jayshields
Luke wrote:I switched to PostgreSQL and I couldn't be happier. I love it. :D
Can you post some key differences from a software developers point of view?

The only "vs" articles I can find are outdated or just lists of specifications which don't mean anything to me.

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:31 pm
by VladSun
jayshields wrote:
Luke wrote:I switched to PostgreSQL and I couldn't be happier. I love it. :D
Can you post some key differences from a software developers point of view?

The only "vs" articles I can find are outdated or just lists of specifications which don't mean anything to me.
Just try it :)

Try to migrate one of your MySQL DBs to PGSQL and see how it works. Define some foreign keys, sequences, etc. Take a look at its PL.

I love its flexibility (I mean PGSQL) - e.g. try to define so called "series" in MySQL...

The "vs" articles I've read, authors say that PGSQL is superior than MSSQL and MySQL.

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:43 am
by Bill H
I seriously doubt that Oracle cares about MySQL one way or the other. My bet is they bought Sun for Java and Solaris and, to some degree, for the hardware business even though that is essentially all outsourced - there is some base there. MySQL is pretty small stuff to them and my bet is they spin it off.

Actually, if Monty asked them for it, they might give it to him. :)

Re: Oracle has bought Sun

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:46 am
by VladSun