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Sun to buy MySQL?
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:32 pm Reply with quote

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omg That's kinda a surprise.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9851644-7.html?tag=nefd.top
 
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Graham Massey
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:52 pm Reply with quote

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I saw that. Don't think there will be any change to it being open-source though
 
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weazzle
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I am pretty sure you can't un-opensource a project, although you could re-structure how it is developed. I am guessing that is their plan.
 
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imnuts
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weazzle wrote:
I am pretty sure you can't un-opensource a project, although you could re-structure how it is developed. I am guessing that is their plan.


if they release a new version, it could probably go closed source. I doubt that the open source community would look to kindly to Sun doing that though. I also read a news article on this that said it could be bad for MySQL as other projects that Sun has bought in the past continue, but their development gradually slows to a crawl and they eventually go unmaintained. Oracle on the other hand could benefit from this. If it happens though, another open source database project will just rise up out of it though.
 
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kanaloa
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I think Sun's pretty good about keeping OSource alive and well. But I agree, if they change that, there will be a lot of noise about it. At least until the next big thing comes along.

I'm hopeful this will encourage more businesses to use mySQL. I got A LOT of resistance (actually a flat NO) at my last job to use this bc it was open source.
 
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