Comments on: Sun / MySQL - Acquisition Rationale http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mr X http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/#comment-219184 Mr X Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:19:53 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/#comment-219184 They have been looking at this area for a while - for example their work on PostgreSQL on solaris http://www.sun.com/software/products/postgresql/index.jsp They have been looking at this area for a while - for example their work on PostgreSQL on solaris

http://www.sun.com/software/products/postgresql/index.jsp

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/#comment-219067 simon Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:06:56 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/#comment-219067 Yes - I bet Sun would just love to take a bite out of Oracle's ever-growing revenues with their new offering. There are certainly many companies that choose to run expensive Oracle software when they could actually do just as well with MySQL. For sure Sun will see that as an opportunity. Yes - I bet Sun would just love to take a bite out of Oracle’s ever-growing revenues with their new offering.

There are certainly many companies that choose to run expensive Oracle software when they could actually do just as well with MySQL. For sure Sun will see that as an opportunity.

]]> By: Mr X http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/#comment-219045 Mr X Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:36:03 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-acquistion-rationale/#comment-219045 Or it could be a 'two can play at that game' two fingers at Oracle who shipped 11g on linux first, have their own OS and virtualisation and are even writing a zfs like fs ( btfs ) - and have not yet shipped 11g for solaris x64/x86. Or it could be a ‘two can play at that game’ two fingers at Oracle who shipped 11g on linux first, have their own OS and virtualisation and are even writing a zfs like fs ( btfs ) - and have not yet shipped 11g for solaris x64/x86.

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