So if IBM failed to acquire Sun, someone had to do the job. Looks like Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems for a total of $7.4 billion. The deal has been approved by Sun’s board of directors. With this acquisition, Oracle is set to become a major player in the cloud computing business giving a tough competition to rival IBM.
Everyone is speculating some graphic layoffs, some great new technology products etc. I’m concerned about how Oracle is going to treat MySQL. Since I’m a huge MySQL fan and a lot of my websites run on MySQL, I an curious to know how Oracle is planning to handle it.
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I don’t think Oracle will kill off MySQL. Oracle bought Innobase in 2005, the company which makes the InnoDB storage engine used by most MySQL installs – and InnoDB is still around. I think that Oracle will keep both since MySQL deployment is _huge_, and the market segments being catered to are slightly different. Even if they try to cut corporate support, MySQL will still exist because it’s an open source project and will be taken over by the community.