MySQL - Sun take over...

After a hiatus I'm back. I promise to make more effort to keep the blog up to date.

 

This morning I've been at on the 11 world wide events Sun is running to understand the future of MYSQL since Sun competed its acquisition in February.

At least of the healthcare software suppliers is using MYSQL to store documents.

I'm also starting to use the LAMP stack for a website I'm developing at the moment. The database is MYSQL so 

 

Simon Phipps - SUN Open Source envangalist Simon Phipps is the first speaker will it be the cathedral pitch. Of interest is that Simon is English and is a

Simon quoted Gartner who are predicting that within 5 years 90% of commercial software will be based on or be completely opensource. Not sure about this - within the the UK health care market I'm not seeing the suppliers moving in that direction. (That is not say that tech's such apache / java are being shunned by suppliers). The software being built and deployed is not based upon a OS licence.

I've heard Simon talk before and this morning talk wasn't his most convincing - I'm not buying that end of the procurement model, to be replaced by the subscription model.

Richard Mason is next up - he's an salesman who came from MYSQL, with a background in RDBMS. He going to explain why Sun brought MYSQL.

first up - complementary product lines - Sun gets access in new markets such as SME. MYSQL was a 400 man company so Sun will provide the business infrastructure to grow.

Sun putting one billion dollars into LAMP, which Sun believe is into its existing products lines such as Java and Glassfish.

Sun will continue to run MYSQL as  - the product will remain open, multi platform to all market segments. A

New subscription offering 'MYSQL Enterprise' is the moneytised  support offer.

David Axmark is next up, he was one of the founders of MYSQL. It as side project back in the 1996 as side project. He thought it might pay their salaries but he never expected it be sold for a billion dollars.

After reflection it looks like at least in the short term not a lot is going to change. Will Sun make a play the large scale enterprise space currently the home of DB2, Oracle and SQL Server?