Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/18/08 13:14

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> howa wrote:
>
>> any side effect for PHP?
>
> Quoting myself from http://message-id.net/jvm365-b8c.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk
>
> | 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.
>
I agree. Sun sell hardware and solutions, not software.
Unlike Microsoft.

Software, to them, is a means to that end.

I would *expect* that as far as the user/API interface goes, nothing
will change.

I would EXPECT that the database engine itself, *might* get a bit of
performance tuning against SUN's hardware, which may or may not emerge
into the public domain.

It might or might not go clusterish, and not use ISAM at all, later on.
But I think not.

Because the top end is well covered by Oracle, so again I would EXPECT
that MySQL will become a basic 'ships with the OS' type product, on
which a lot of OS admin functions might be based, as well as it being a
useful thing to have on board for less power hungry db apps.

Thinking back to my days of 200 employees and Informix on SCO Unix, and
telnet screens..I would have wet my pants for a SUN SPARC. with Mysql
and the apps ported to apache/php/mySQL

In fact, essentially that is what I am doing now..writing the db app
that despite spending 6 figure sums, I couldn't get then..it will
probably cost 6 figures in terms of my time, but then I am retired, and
its a hobby now.

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