Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/14/62 12:00

Baho Utot wrote:

> I thought it was open source....

It is, but most of the development on MySQL is sponsored by MySQL AB, a
commercial entity. (Similarly OpenOffice.org is sponsored by Sun and
Firefox by the Mozilla Foundation.)

A database has been the string missing from Sun's bow for a long time.
Sure, they had Adabas D, but no-one took that seriously.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with MySQL now. Sun have been a
company relatively friendly to open source, so I doubt that we'll see
major forking by developers opposed to the new ownership. Development will
probably continue much like it always has, but expect to see more focus on
support for OpenSolaris; improved JDBC bindings; and possibly further down
the line, support for functions and stored procedures written in Java.

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