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Oracle buys Sun for $7.4 billion! Hello scott/tiger!

Author: seven April 20, 2009

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On 26 February 2008, Sun acquired MySQL AB. Today, Oracle Corporation announced acquisition of Sun Microsystems. All that acquiring is nice, but what’s in it for us – MySQL developers? Well, we will have to wait and see. I wouldn’t have anything against switching to Oracle. :) Oracle was my first real database I used back in ’90s (Oracle 7), and after reading 2 meters of Oracle books, I was pretty happy with PL/SQL, triggers, views and stored procedures. Switching to MySQL was hard. :)

What is certain – Oracle does not plan to shutdown MySQL. According to Oracle FAQ about the acquisition: “MySQL will be an addition to Oracle’s existing suite of database products, which already includes Oracle Database 11g, TimesTen, Berkeley DB open source database, and the open source transactional storage engine, InnoDB,”.

What do you think will happen to MySQL?

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seven
CEO/CTO at Nivas®
Neven Jacmenović has been passionately involved with computers since late 80s, the age of Atari and Commodore Amiga. As one of internet industry pioneers in Croatia, since 90s, he has been involved in making of many award winning, innovative and successful online projects. He is an experienced full stack web developer, analyst and system engineer. In his spare time, Neven is transforming retro-futuristic passion into various golang, Adobe Flash and JavaScript/WebGL projects.

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