Helping Dolphins Fly
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
From Jonathan’s blog, CEO and president of Sun Microsystems, Inc. we can learn that Sun is “putting a billion dollars behind the M in MAMP”.
That’s right, Sun is acquiring MySQL AB, the developer of the most widely used open source database. MySql is sharing a big portion of database market share pie, along with SQL Server and Oracle. Due to its open source nature, trends indicate an increasing adoption.
Curious now. Sun recently open sourced Java … and now they complete their open source portfolio with MySQL.
Hopefully this is good news for the open source community.
