Effect of MySQL being acquired by Sun Micro

[howa]

any side effect for PHP?

what do you think?

[The Natural Philosopher]

howa wrote:

any side effect for PHP?

what do you think?

Essentially none.

Typically one connects via a socket, and issues raw SQL calls..unless
sun change the way of communicating, why should PHP know or care?

In which case only a change to the sql library woulkd be needed.

Of course if they change the SQL *language* in a way that isn't
compatible, then all your queries mighty fail, but why would anyone
(except possibly Mircosoft) ever do something as silly as that?

They want a supported and supportable database for sun engines. With as
much third party support as they can get. They just bought it,. Good for
them.

[howa]

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howa wrote:

any side effect for PHP?

what do you think?

Essentially none.

Typically one connects via a socket, and issues raw SQL calls..unless
sun change the way of communicating, why should PHP know or care?

In which case only a change to the sql library woulkd be needed.

Of course if they change the SQL *language* in a way that isn't
compatible, then all your queries mighty fail, but why would anyone
(except possibly Mircosoft) ever do something as silly as that?

They want a supported and supportable database for sun engines. With as
much third party support as they can get. They just bought it,. Good for
them.

Well, sun is not part of the LAMP family, I afraid the future of mysql
is too focus on Java, adding too much overhead for php.

[Tim Roberts]

howa <ho******@gmail .comwrote:

>
Well, sun is not part of the LAMP family, I afraid the future of mysql
is too focus on Java, adding too much overhead for php.

I think you're loony. Sun != Java. They had a lot of products before
Java, and they'll have many after. They did not buy MySQL so they could
rewrite it in Java. The same people will still be working on the product,
but now Sun can take the credit.

Sun has certainly not ruined OpenOffice. There's no reason to think it
will have any impact on MySQL.
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[Toby A Inkster]

howa wrote:

any side effect for PHP?

Quoting myself from http://message-id.net/jv************@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.

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[The Natural Philosopher]

Toby A Inkster wrote:

howa wrote:

>any side effect for PHP?

Quoting myself from http://message-id.net/jv************@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.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

On Jan 17, 9:24 pm, howa <howac...@gmail .comwrote:

any side effect for PHP?

what do you think?

1. License won't change for previous GPLed MySQL versions
2. We have PostgreSQL
3. Someone could fork GPL'ed MySQL at sourceforge

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

On Jan 18, 6:48 pm, Gary L. Burnore <gburn...@datab asix.comwrote:

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:46:37 -0800 (PST), "R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah"

<ng4rrjanb...@r ediffmail.comwr ote:

On Jan 17, 9:24 pm, howa <howac...@gmail .comwrote:

any side effect for PHP?

what do you think?

1. License won't change for previous GPLed MySQL versions

Nor for the SUN "version", most likely.

2. We have PostgreSQL

That's not mySql.

But, OS alternative

3. Someone could fork GPL'ed MySQL at sourceforge

Why would they?

That's the common OS community response when some OS applications
are transformed to commercial. e.g., ProjectPier

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

On Jan 18, 7:02 pm, Gary L. Burnore <gburn...@datab asix.comwrote:

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:54:59 -0800 (PST), "R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah"

<snip>

3. Someone could fork GPL'ed MySQL at sourceforge

Why would they?

That's the common OS community response when some OS applications
are transformed to commercial. e.g., ProjectPier

SUN has already said it'll be open source. Perhaps you're confusing
SUN with IBM or MicroSoft?

I don't find any such reference. Do you have any URL?

In that case, it's going to be like Zend
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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

On Jan 18, 8:11 pm, Gary L. Burnore <gburn...@datab asix.comwrote:

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:38:03 -0800 (PST), "R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah"

<snip>

SUN has already said it'll be open source. Perhaps you're confusing
SUN with IBM or MicroSoft?

I don't find any such reference. Do you have any URL?

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-...20080116.1.xml

<snip>

I still don't find any such reference in the above link.

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