So Sun is buying MySQL for $1B, according to linux.com. Good for Sun, maybe. Good for the owners of MySQL, damn skippy. But what about the rest of us? I still have a bad taste in my mouth from when Sun bought Cobalt Networks, released one more model of Cobalt, and then disbanded the line. No more Cobalts. We were in discussions back then to buy a hosting company which consisted of nothing but hundreds and hundreds of Cobalt servers. Where would we have been if we had bought them and then suddenly, no more Cobalts, no more support, no upgrade path? That would have been one serious clusterfark.
So naturally it makes me wonder about the future of MySQL, the future of open-source in general, the future of economical application hosting.
Let’s hope someone does what CentOS did, and release a Community Enterprise version of MySQL and continues to leave it affordable for service providers, developers and techies.
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