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,