A Sad Day for Open Source? Oracle Acquires Sun…

By Zoli Erdos on April 20, 2009

Java? MySQL?

Not much more to say at the moment… Yes, I know, this should have been a Tweet

Details @ Bloomberg, NYT, TechCrunch, GigaOM, deal architect, SmoothSpan and soon the rest of the world…

Update: A day later, if you had any doubts, here’s the answer: Bye-bye MySQL, Bye-bye: Buried Alive By Oracle.

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Posted in Enterprise | Tagged enterprise software, java, mysql, open source, Oracle, orcl, sun | 9 Responses

Zoli Erdos

Publisher / Editor @ CloudAve and Enterprise Irregulars. Industry Observer, Blogger, Startup Advisor, Program Chair @ SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs). In his "prior life" spent 15 years immersed in the business of Enterprise Software, at management positions with SAP, IBM, Deloitte, KPMG and the like.

9 responses to “A Sad Day for Open Source? Oracle Acquires Sun…”

Devan April 20, 2009 at 7:19 am | Permalink

Ouch! I think we can say goodbye to MySQL as we know it at present! 🙁
Krish April 20, 2009 at 7:56 am | Permalink

Fork, Fork, Fork!! People, it is time to fork Mysql and save it. Sad day for Open Source and Sad day for SaaS too. This has to happen on the day I am going to deliver a talk on the importance of open source in a SaaS world.
Zoli Erdos April 20, 2009 at 8:06 am | Permalink

Krish gets an exercise in real-time update of his presentation 🙂
Krish April 20, 2009 at 8:32 am | Permalink

I am planning to stick with the talk I planned. Maybe I will start the talk with a black colored blank slide to offer my condolences to the “death” of a great software 🙂
Rutt April 20, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink

Krish,

Just wear a black armband to the talk… it is more subtle.
schultzter April 20, 2009 at 10:59 am | Permalink

Take a look at Oracle’s open-source page: http://www.oracle.com/technologies/open-source/index.html

So I’m not too worried about Java or MySQL.
schultzter April 20, 2009 at 11:00 am | Permalink

Sorry about the multiple posts – I kept getting a message that were was a problem and to try again later…using Chrome beta 2.0.172.6.
Ben Kepes April 20, 2009 at 11:21 am | Permalink

It’s funny – I’ve been bemoaning the proliferation of free (and hence unviable) software and services for awhile now but MySQL? It’s kind of like charging for the air we breathe….
pcalcada April 21, 2009 at 5:38 am | Permalink

Hello, definitely I don’t share the idea that this is a sad day, even for OpenSource. MySQL has already a forked version, apparently done by Monty, an original developer of, and ex-CTO of MySQL AB.
I think that this is a movement very interesting to the Cloud Computing paradigm. a litle more about this here.