Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM

Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by seldo on Thursday September 10, 2009 @12:37PM (#815579)

It seems pretty conspicuously absent, in fact.

MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survive within Oracle -- it competes directly as a zero-cost alternative to Oracle's core products.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by gaius on Thursday September 10, 2009 @01:11PM (#815661)

Well, no, not at all. If you are an "enterprise" then you are paying $$$ for the "enterprise" version of MySQL. If you aren't, then you'd never buy Oracle anyway, you don't need it. At the end of the day MySQL is pretty irrelevant to Oracle's plans for Sun.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by mikedouglas on Thursday September 10, 2009 @01:25PM (#815702)

Oracle would be crazy to give up MySQL. Controlling it, they can ensure it'll never compete with their high-end products, while taking the air out of the entry db market.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by jhancock on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:29PM (#816600)

postgres works great and keeps getting better. Oracle and Sun are both irrelevant to most startups.

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