Jonathan Schwartz: “We announced big news today – our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we’re acquiring MySQL AB.”
Jonathan Schwartz: “We announced big news today – our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we’re acquiring MySQL AB.”
Huh? _Why_? I’m having a hard time swallowing the rationale about wanting to get friendly with academia — there’s no money there. From my vague view of the OSS world, SUN hasn’t really been a strongly active member in recent years; so what’s the real reason for buying MySQL AB?
Some mysteries I can pass by, but this one has my attention.
Getting friendly with acadamia makes complete sense. It’s not about making money in the short term, it’s about getting people to use your hardware/software. People are more likely to go with something they are familiar with so if you get them using your gear in college they become future customers.
Hopefully Sun can help MySQL scale to more than 4 cores because it completely sucks there. In fact from what I’ve seen lately PostgreSQL has been kicking MySQL’s butt in performance.
So might this be a move to bolster MySQL into something that can stand against MS-SQL and, maybe someday, Oracle?
So, it seems that maybe the OSS aspect of this can be virtually ignored. Perhaps SUN isn’t doing this so much to become a more active member in the OSS arena and is more looking at setting up a free + enterprise piece of software?
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