This is so brain-dead, it is actually quite funny: In a move to make sure that he will be seen - once again - as a brave contrarian, John Dvorak thinks that Oracle paid Sun to kill MySQL. After reading this article, I had to verify that this was not The Onion , but actually MarketWatch. His argument is fairly simple: Sun has a bad track-record of M&A, so Larry Ellison forces his old buddy Scott ... ahmm, no wait, it's Jonathan now ... to buy MySQL and ruin it. To prove his point, Dvorak links

This makes total sense - and finally Sun gets a real database. I can think of at least 10 different major software products from Sun that would benefits enomously from switching from their respective current database platform to a single data store. I am really looking forward to having a single API and place to store structured data in Solaris and Java. Cool. It reminds me also of the phrase someone coined: "LAMP is for boys, MARS [1] is for men." tag: Sun , Solaris , MySQL [1] MySQL, Apache, Ruby,

... since I joined Sun. Actually 10 years almost to the date, so Bill presented my 10 year recognition certificate to me today. It has been a very interesting 10 years: I started out as a pre-sales systems engineer in Frankfurt, Germany, moved to the U.S. in 2000 to work with the Sun Legal team (mostly) and then joined the Business Alliances group in 2005. From this point a big "Thank you" to everyone who I worked with on this journey. tag: Sun