Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy Sun Microsystems

theregister.co.uk

38 pointsgaius5 comments

So will this mean the utter neutering of MySQL development...

or its sale to someplace where it might re-establish its development on the database playing field?

I think it is time to look into PostgreSQL and Drizzle.

that's not a bad idea, but as far as Wikipedia knows, there isn't a windows version of Drizzle available. this could eventually be a problem for some users.

dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=570502

The other article is a press release from Sun, and this one is a story on theregister.co.uk.

Not a dupe, though I'd suggest reading this then going over to the other for discussion.

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