Oracle buys Sun!

[Andrew "Tuna" Harris]

Excerpts from Bryan O'Neal's message of Mon Apr 20 18:43:04 -0700 2009:
> Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, in a conference call described Java
> as "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." so Java
> is probably safe, sun hardware and OS will likely get a boost, and MySQL is
> likely to be spun off as a pure community project with corporate support.
> But this is just my guess.  I do not see this as a bad thing.  Also remember
> that while Oracle (which is a really good DB by the way) is Oracles flagship
> product they are trying to go the IBM route of service company.  So far they
> have retained the worst parts of their acquisitions culture so I am not sure
> how well it will work in the long run, but they are a juggernaut rite now.
>
Yeah, I listened to that conference call. I didn't hear any mention of
MySQL though.

Whatever the case, I downloaded a source tarball of the latest stable
MySQL today. Do notice that Sun pushed this "Downloads" thing to their
homepage with a bunch of links to their Open Saucey stuff. Quick! Grab
what you can!

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> It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun.  This is not a drill.  How
> is this going to play out for Java and MySQL?
>