Comments on: Give Me a M: The MySQL/Sun Q&A

By: bruce

bruce — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:22:38 +0000

Given that this deal may go sour for both parties .. I haven’t seen Sun do much right (from the inside) … I wonder what people are leaving open as a back door in case MySQL becomes “privatized” and people have to use something else?

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Strong Leaders, Strange Bedfellows and The Art of War by Sun 2

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:50:32 +0000

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By: Scott Mace

Scott Mace — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:30:25 +0000

One question still unanswered: Does Sun inherit MySQL’s Eclipse Foundation membership once the deal closes?

By: OS & Venture Capital Blog » Blog Archive » After MySQL Exit – What Next?

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:35:07 +0000

[...] (disclaimer: I was a seed investor in to MySQL). For good analysis check e.g. Stephen O’Grady’s post as well as Stephen Walli’s thougths and for the inside scoop in Jonathan’s post and Zack [...]

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And the best Sun/MySQL Acquisition Analysis Award goes to… — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:00:57 +0000

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By: Niraj J

Niraj J — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:49:09 +0000

Consider this:

If Sun was to offer an Amazon EC2 type service and could offer the “software stack with support embedded in the monthly pricing” - which stack would it be

Solaris , My Sql , Sun App Server , Java

Needless to say , I will be willing to pay a slight premium over what EC2 offers because I get the support much needed specially in a service environment where all things are not in my control.

Here in lies the differentiator.

HaaS is IMHO a LAMP killer. As a business applications developer all that I care about is the programming model(Essential my choice of language and frameworks) and that the underlying infrastructure should reliably (who ever it might be from) perform.

The underlying infrastructure to a developer is really a commodity (RDBMS , operating system , storage , bandwidth , CPU power)

The application that the business writes is the core of the business and I could foresee religious battles between using GWT or Flash or JSF in the application development department of the company. But if a vendor promises certain benchmarks on CPU availability , Database uptime and performance , bandwidth etc - I do not anticipate a major religious wars (unless of course there is an inhouse datacenter with vested interests )

I am not saying that sun will not give choice to the customer , but solaris and mysql based stack could turn out to be a better proposition for the customers

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Sun kauft Mysql und Google sieht alt aus | Heiko Eckert - Blog — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:39:37 +0000

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By: Niraj J

Niraj J — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:11:44 +0000

One more perspective on the acquisition

http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2008/01/database-20.html

By: Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Sun bought MySQL

Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Sun bought MySQL — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:19:05 +0000

[...] Great commentaries about the acquisition can be spotted around already, but there is something I feel it has been missing in the move. [...]

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Oracle Buys The Present That Keeps on Giving: on BEA and M&A

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:49:36 +0000

[...] as Stephen put me putting it: “BEA is very much the traditional software model, while MySQL is more the upstart, [...]