Comments on: On the Oracle/Sun deal http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/21/on-the-oraclesun-deal/ escape colon w q Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:30:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Forking MySQL… http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/21/on-the-oraclesun-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-14482 Forking MySQL… Fri, 22 May 2009 14:40:55 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/?p=2246#comment-14482 [...] in the wake of the purchase of Sun by Oracle, although by no means caused by it, it seems like MySQL is at a crossroads - it’s becoming [...] [...] in the wake of the purchase of Sun by Oracle, although by no means caused by it, it seems like MySQL is at a crossroads – it’s becoming [...]

]]> By: Ken Kennedy http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/21/on-the-oraclesun-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-15407 Ken Kennedy Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:36:00 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/?p=2246#comment-15407 I totally agree with you here; $7.4b of jazzy? I don't think so. *grin* And with Michael Widenius kicking up the "fork MySQL" (again...we already have Drizzle) talk, it could be weird in that space. That many forks is usually not good for a F/OSS product, especially one as ubiquitous as MySQL. I totally agree with you here; $7.4b of jazzy? I don't think so. *grin* And with Michael Widenius kicking up the “fork MySQL” (again…we already have Drizzle) talk, it could be weird in that space. That many forks is usually not good for a F/OSS product, especially one as ubiquitous as MySQL.

]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/21/on-the-oraclesun-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-15408 felix Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:20:17 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/?p=2246#comment-15408 Ken - yeah, Sun's got some neat nicknacks in their bag 'o tricks, dtrace too and what not. But none of that comes close to $7.4 billion dollars worth of nicknacks. :) I'm curious to see what comes of all these things - but my guess is that it doesn't end well for most. Sigh. Ken – yeah, Sun's got some neat nicknacks in their bag 'o tricks, dtrace too and what not. But none of that comes close to $7.4 billion dollars worth of nicknacks. :) I'm curious to see what comes of all these things – but my guess is that it doesn't end well for most. Sigh.

]]> By: Ken Kennedy http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/21/on-the-oraclesun-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-15409 Ken Kennedy Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:00 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/?p=2246#comment-15409 I'm pretty much in agreement here. I expect you're pretty spot on wrt MySQL in particular. Should be interesting to see if they do manage to avoid cannibalizing their own Oracle licensing. I still think it's kind of weird, though (much like you, sounds like). <br><br>There's also some other wacky stuff like VirtualBox (VMWare competition) and ZFS (the backend of the storage system you're talking about, I imagine. ZFS kicks ASS.) How they integrate some of those properties will be worth watching. I'm pretty much in agreement here. I expect you're pretty spot on wrt MySQL in particular. Should be interesting to see if they do manage to avoid cannibalizing their own Oracle licensing. I still think it's kind of weird, though (much like you, sounds like).

There's also some other wacky stuff like VirtualBox (VMWare competition) and ZFS (the backend of the storage system you're talking about, I imagine. ZFS kicks ASS.) How they integrate some of those properties will be worth watching.

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