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Quote:Sun Microsystems is to pay $1bn for open source database developer MySQL.

MySQL's open source databases are widely used online, but Sun is hoping to increase their use in more traditional IT and enterprise settings. The database is used by many websites - 50,000 copies a day are downloaded.

MySQL will be integrated into Sun's Software, Sales and Services organisation. MySQL's CEO Marten Mickos will join Sun's "senior executive team", and a group made up of staff from both companies will help sort out the integration.

The company makes a range of databases, including MySQL Enterprise Server, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, and MySQL Embedded Database, and claims 100 million copies have been downloaded at some time. It provides the "M" in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) - the software stack much of the web runs on.

Although Sun is generally seen as a good friend to the open source community, it will be interesting to see how that sometimes touchy group reacts to the corporate takeover.

MySQL is run from Cupertino, California, and Uppsala, Sweden. It has 400 staff in 25 countries.

Sun is paying $800m in cash and will take on $200m in share options.

The press release is here

* UncertainGod has nasty vision of future versions of MySQL being released under the CCDL instead of the GPL.

Remember people there is always PostgresSQL to use instead.

This may cause some upset,

yup now that sun owns it in most likely will not be under the GPL... they will probably make you pay quite a bit for it....  its bad for us but good for sun.. id rather it be free and able to be freely modded

No, it will always be free. Sun don't charge for much of there software any more, they charge for support and optimise it to run best on Solaris.

meh, as long as it stays free, i think its good to know it has the backing of a good comany

When they start charging its annoying, since it was free before

UncertainGod Wrote:No, it will always be free. Sun don't charge for much of there software any more, they charge for support and optimise it to run best on Solaris.

yeah your right.. didnt think... sun doesn't charge to use java.. so what your saying that most likely they will optimize it to run on solaris (another sun product.. go figure).. lol i don't know hahaha im not website maker.. i used frontpage to make three websites in the past and all of them looked very much like an amatuer made them.. lol one of them was a salior moon site about 6 years ago with angel fire then i switched to geocities cause im a broke mofo ahh the pre-broad band days sucked... hehe im too lazy to even do art anymore

WOW, although 1 billlion is..expensive? lol, it deserves it :great: