The Social Geek » Open Source http://www.thesocialgeek.com/blog A never ending story of a never stopping idiot! Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:59:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MySQL to be acquired by Sun Microsystems http://www.thesocialgeek.com/blog/2008/01/20/mysql-to-be-acquired-by-sun-microsystems/ http://www.thesocialgeek.com/blog/2008/01/20/mysql-to-be-acquired-by-sun-microsystems/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:51:43 +0000 Kamran http://www.thesocialgeek.com/wordpress/?p=25 Hmm.. this seems like a really neat development. I really feel Sun Microsystems is a great company and I really appreciate the way Sun conducts its business. I love Java, which is a great innovation, and Netbeans is just one example of how well Sun can run an open source software project. The other one is Open Office, the powerful open source office suite for those who can't afford Microsoft Office or who run other operating systems than Windows.

For the developers, I think this $1 billion acquisition is going to be a good news. I think we would be having much more relaxed licensing terms as compared to MySQL's current terms of licensing. I think this would open up MySQL more. I am yet to investigate the Solaris OS offering from Sun because of lack of time perhaps but some people do tell me that Solaris OS is one big powerful monster itself in various situations.

I think Sun has taken a really good step in a positive direction and this is going to do good to the Developer community.

Click here to read the official press release from Sun Microsystems.

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I find it a must to save this URL in a blog entry. This way, I would use it whenever I want it, and at the same time, other people coming across this post on the web may find it very useful.

The URL is here: http://www.cdolivet.net/index.php?page=editArea

I really think people should be bookmarking in their blogs, as it gives enough description, and a safe place for the link.

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