Of course, you could also just use Postgres, which already lets you embed your choice of scripting language(s) in the database server...

Nah, too black.

Quoth you a couple months ago:

If there is anybody here who thinks that blacks and Jews are genetically equivilent [sic] in intelligence, raise your hands. Please, I beg you. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88082)

Was today's comment so bad? Nope, just lame. Unfortunately, people make logical leaps where they shouldn't. As you said so eloquently in another thread when you asserted that blacks must obviously be stupid: at what point does the evidence become overwhelming?

By the way, for anyone who missed it, the media ran its usual hit pieces against Ron Paul, accusing him of racism, etc, etc. Hence my (admittedly lame) joke.

Please correct me if I'm wrong in my guess.

Other companies with a split proprietary/free model require copyright assignments for contributions as well. So, too, does the FSF, although for rather different reasons.

The world is a messed up place.

Compared to Oracle's market cap of $113 billion, MySQL is a relative bargain.

And while their business models are different, Sun is in a position to make a major dent in Oracle's client base.

With Sun behind them, it's easier for big enterprise customers to go along with MySQL instead of Oracle; support costs for using MySQL are also cheaper.

The net effect will be more profits for Sun overall.

We read all the time about number 1 or number 2, but companies survive or die based on profitability and fiscal responsibility, not market position.

Also, revenue model != revenue or, more importantly, earnings. And whether a company has a good revenue model is at best peripherally related to how accurately it's valued.

Please don't get me wrong, It is Sun's money to do with as they wish, I am just trying to get my head around a billion dollars.

I doubt if they'll ever see a commensurate return on that investment. They'd have to make millions of dollars in profit per year just to keep up with the time value of money.

It would have been smarter to buy MySQL AB earlier...but Sun only recently really got that Open Source religion, and earlier they would have been reviled for stepping in and buying up MySQL (if the MySQL guys would have even sold to a pre-OSS friendly Sun). Sun also had a bad habit of buying and killing companies, which is presumably now corrected. The OpenOffice acquisition turned out well (ignoring the Java dependency issue already mentioned), so everybody probably trusts them to do the right thing by MySQL.

I'm guessing they will find some way to raise the price of MySQL licences, perhaps by bundling higher-priced licences with Solaris.

Step 3... Profit!

Similarly, there are persistent rumours that Sun will buy RedHat; but never any suggestion that anyone would buy Debian or FreeBSD, because the later both lack any central corporate body.

That's what I meant by "sort-of" -- MySQL is GPLed, but where potential customers are concerned, they try really hard to make sure that people won't take advantage of that fact.

Although JRuby + JMySQL on the right VM could make easy virtualization on RoR for companies like Dreamhost.