Comments on: Sun catching up with the 1980s http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/sun-catching-up-with-the-1980s/ Your daily IT cuppa Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/sun-catching-up-with-the-1980s/comment-page-1/#comment-5793 Jack Hughes Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:26:11 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/sun-catching-up-with-the-1980s/#comment-5793 @Bob - I think you're right, Sun's timing of the MySQL purchase is perfect. But, the point I was making is that it is strange that it has taken them until 2008 to get into the database market. @Bob – I think you’re right, Sun’s timing of the MySQL purchase is perfect. But, the point I was making is that it is strange that it has taken them until 2008 to get into the database market.

]]> By: Bob Warfield http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/sun-catching-up-with-the-1980s/comment-page-1/#comment-5789 Bob Warfield Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:02 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/sun-catching-up-with-the-1980s/#comment-5789 I think their timing is perfect. They needed to let MySQL get as big as it could on its own. It is now the predominant open source database, as you mention. At the same time, MySQL was about to go public, so this was a huge opportunity to step in that could not be missed. Look what happened with VMWare when it followed a similar path. By waiting, you avoid killing the innovation for as long as possible. Once you have most of that in place, a big company like Sun will radically accelerate MySQL's adoption curve. More on my blog: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/mysql-and-bea-oracle-and-sun-will-be-at-each-others-throats/ Best, BW I think their timing is perfect. They needed to let MySQL get as big as it could on its own. It is now the predominant open source database, as you mention. At the same time, MySQL was about to go public, so this was a huge opportunity to step in that could not be missed. Look what happened with VMWare when it followed a similar path.

By waiting, you avoid killing the innovation for as long as possible. Once you have most of that in place, a big company like Sun will radically accelerate MySQL’s adoption curve.

More on my blog:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/mysql-and-bea-oracle-and-sun-will-be-at-each-others-throats/

Best,

BW

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