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

After reading the Oracle/BEA announcement, when I sent my condolences to some of my ex-BEA colleagues, one of them replied by saying It will be nice to have a database as part of our stack Another one was a bit more pragmatic: In case of Sun/MySQL, it is Sun.add(MySQL.getInstance()); getSupportContracts(); In case of Oracle/BEA, it is INSERT INTO TABLE_APPSERVER(BEA); DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP(2 [...]

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,

This came as bit of a surprise. I guess Sun is serious about this open source stuff after all. No Tags