Almost a month ago, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that they had acquired MySQL AB (the company behind the world's most popular open source database) for the vaue of approximately $ 1 Billion. This acquisition leaded Sun to enter the $15 Billion worth database market and at the same time it strengthen Sun's position as the leader in open source software.
What does this acquisition means to Sun?
As reported by ZDNET, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz called this acquisition as the “most important acquisition in history of company” and added that the database firm will have “a central role” as Sun rolls out its open source strategy. Schwartz also added that the acquisition puts Sun at “the centre of the global Web economy” since a lot of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL. Examples include industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Facebook, Google, Nokia, YouTube, Baidu, China Mobile and Booking.com.
What does this acquisition means to MySQL?
According to Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the acquisition carries a big opportunity for users and organizations of all sizes seeking innovation, growth and choice. As quoted from his interview, he said that "Sun's culture and business model complements MySQL's own by sharing the same ideals that we have had since our foundation -- software freedom, online innovation and community and partner participation. We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy."
How do users react towards this acquisition?
This acquisition resulted in users' enthusiasm. Even before the acquisition is completed, the number of MySQL's daily downloads have also increased from approximately 50,000 to more than 60,000 per day. At the same time, Sun also received an overwhelming response and embrace from customers and community members, who are excited to see MySQL's tremendous innovation with the support of Sun.
Joshua Rand, CEO of Sapotek, Inc. (a Web 2.0 company that uses MySQL), said "As a developer of open source web applications and services that relies heavily on both Sun and MySQL, we believe that the combined companies will better address our IT needs today, tomorrow and beyond. We're confident that the MySQL acquisition will reinforce Sun's commitment to providing hardware, software and services that will save us money in having one integrated, end-to-end platform. The combination of MySQL and Sun provides the community with unlimited possibilities, ensuring the highest level of quality assurance and advanced feature contributions to the world's leading open source initiatives."
Personally, I think this acquisition might bring great benefits to us, as users. With the support of Sun, I believe MySQL will be able to provide better products and services. Although at first, I doubted it (because Sun might limit language support of MySQL to Java only), this doubt is cleared after I read the Marten Mickos (the CEO of MySQL) interview, in which he said that there will not be any language restrictions. In facts, he said "Our mandate within Sun is to grow our database business - on all operating systems and with all development and scripting languages and on all hardware platforms".
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What does this acquisition means to Sun?
As reported by ZDNET, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz called this acquisition as the “most important acquisition in history of company” and added that the database firm will have “a central role” as Sun rolls out its open source strategy. Schwartz also added that the acquisition puts Sun at “the centre of the global Web economy” since a lot of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL. Examples include industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Facebook, Google, Nokia, YouTube, Baidu, China Mobile and Booking.com.
What does this acquisition means to MySQL?
According to Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the acquisition carries a big opportunity for users and organizations of all sizes seeking innovation, growth and choice. As quoted from his interview, he said that "Sun's culture and business model complements MySQL's own by sharing the same ideals that we have had since our foundation -- software freedom, online innovation and community and partner participation. We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy."
How do users react towards this acquisition?
This acquisition resulted in users' enthusiasm. Even before the acquisition is completed, the number of MySQL's daily downloads have also increased from approximately 50,000 to more than 60,000 per day. At the same time, Sun also received an overwhelming response and embrace from customers and community members, who are excited to see MySQL's tremendous innovation with the support of Sun.
Joshua Rand, CEO of Sapotek, Inc. (a Web 2.0 company that uses MySQL), said "As a developer of open source web applications and services that relies heavily on both Sun and MySQL, we believe that the combined companies will better address our IT needs today, tomorrow and beyond. We're confident that the MySQL acquisition will reinforce Sun's commitment to providing hardware, software and services that will save us money in having one integrated, end-to-end platform. The combination of MySQL and Sun provides the community with unlimited possibilities, ensuring the highest level of quality assurance and advanced feature contributions to the world's leading open source initiatives."
Personally, I think this acquisition might bring great benefits to us, as users. With the support of Sun, I believe MySQL will be able to provide better products and services. Although at first, I doubted it (because Sun might limit language support of MySQL to Java only), this doubt is cleared after I read the Marten Mickos (the CEO of MySQL) interview, in which he said that there will not be any language restrictions. In facts, he said "Our mandate within Sun is to grow our database business - on all operating systems and with all development and scripting languages and on all hardware platforms".
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this is absurd. another anti-competition initiative?
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