Simon’s Blog

I thought it was clear.  Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems said that all of Sun’s software was to be Free and Open Source.    I don’t remember the precise date on which this decision was made - but I think it was early 2006.    At the end of November 2006, Jonathan wrote the following on [...]

You’ve probably seen the news already.  Sun Microsystems is to acquire MySQL AB (the company behind the MySQL database) for $1B.   I’d been expecting MySQL to IPO this year, so it came out of the blue to me. This looks like a potentially great outcome for everyone involved.
It certainly looks like a great outcome for [...]