… the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal. In fact I was just on… good as they can with Linux ? Will Sun follow Open Source spirit of MySQL Founders (and I mean Founders because spirit is…, our consulting company this is mostly positive development. Sun will work on expanding MySQL market further which will mean more consulting work…
Post: Battle around MySQL heats up
December 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
As the deadline for EC to decide if Oracle can acquire Sun and hence MySQL is coming up the tensions seems to heat up. Monty posts his open letter calling for help lobbying EC to stop Oracle from buying MySQL .
Post: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
… problem dealing with large companies. You can go online and buy support for your single server and use it to solve… millions while MySQL could have these done for thousands or tens of thousands in some cases. As MySQL merge with Sun progresses I… – the deal with Sun is great news for MySQL and will steer a lot of large fish in MySQL nets, it is also…
Comment: Looking for MySQL 4.0 Support post EOL ?
December 14, 2008 By 9 Comments
Like Percona, Sun/MySQL does offer support for EOL versions: http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/ “Customers with support needs beyond the Extended Lifecycle timeframe can negotiate custom agreements. Please contact the MySQL Sales Team at http://www.mysql.com/buy-mysql/” If you are going to make blanket…
Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 2, 2008 By 34 Comments
… – Jeremy does not build all these packages, just redistributes them. MySQL Server is happily still licensed as GPL which allows redistribution… ahead and buy MySQL Enterprise as Tom states in the first comment. Thing we should not forget – Sun is commercial company and MySQL group has to make money. Though in my opinion MySQL stretches its accelerated growth…
Comment: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
I think you hit all of the right issues with the merger. I would only add that I really hope that Sun will understand the proper roles of an enterprise version versus the community as outlined by Baron ( http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/08/12/what-would-make-me-buy-mysql-enterprise/ ).
Comment: Big Iron for tests anyone ?
March 21, 2008 By 10 Comments
… is Sun hardware, Sun has a try-and-buy program, and considering Sun‘s recent acquisition of MySQL — it seems you should probably contact Sun and… that meet one or more of your requests: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5220/index.xml (non x86, up to 8 core, 64 thread) http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/specs.xml (non x86, up to…
Comment: Interesting MySQL and PostgreSQL Benchmarks
December 4, 2006 By 20 Comments
… ‘n buy that sun offers, through this we came in contact with them, and they offered help in fine-tuning mysql and solaris… these benches, with that those sun‘s were a great help. They noticed that on solaris MySQL used a lot of time… end Hans (the sun employee) commited some changes to the Studio10 compiler that should increase innodb and mysql performance on solaris even…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
…your data storage to be. This is also why Sun is so proud about checksums on the file …system performance impact and (in particular if you use MySQL Replication for HA) the switch to the new server…many cases much easier to convince “finance” people to buy something cheap which is not used most of the…
Post: SpyLOG Was sold the other day, time to look back
August 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
…instantly at TB scale. We found massive amount of MySQL and Innodb bugs and at that time Monty …. A lot of these projects never saw the sun light or were closed after beta testing (sometimes …. What also interests me is why MasterHost would buy SpyLOG. Perhaps I should ask. The official explanation …
