Re: The two steps to being under the Sun...

josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus) writes:
> Sun does not want to deal with any "real" open source projects.
> MySQL AB, which is a commercial company dabbling in open source,
> suits Sun's corprorate "personality" a lot better than we ever
> would. We won the technical evaluation and lost the corporate
> politics.

Furthermore, MySQL isn't likely to seriously challenge any
relationships with their commercial 'partners.'

If the "open source" database that they push is considered only
suitable for toy applications, then that's _perfect_ for any
partnering they do with vendors like Oracle.

It is, as a result, perfectly natural for them to say "Well, if you
want to do any _real_ work with databases, then you should talk to our
partner here..." Nobody is likely to question that this is a good
idea.

If, in contrast, they bundled something that _does_ scale better,
there might be an awkward pause if someone asks the question "... And
I need to upgrade to Oracle precisely why?"
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