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16 January 2008

Extinguishing LAMP: Sun Buys MySQL

On Open Enterprise blog.

6 comments:

webmink said...: That's a pretty hostile headlien Glyn. What have I/we done to justify you using it?; 3:29 pm
Glyn Moody said...: Well, it's not meant to be hostile, just analytic. As my piece on the other blog explains, it seems to me that one of the big attractions of MySQL is that it runs most of Web 2.0; your salespeople will naturally try to sell other Sun stuff like (Open)Solaris to go with it - I certainly would in their shoes.

So whatever other benefits Sun's acquisition of MySQL may have for open source - and I can certainly see several - it may also have the unfortunate effect of weakening GNU/Linux. Hence the title.; 3:37 pm
webmink said...: It may, but it's not Sun's plan for it to have that effect. Given we want mySQL to be accretive by FY10 we would be nuts to detract from MySQL's existing business.; 10:28 pm
Glyn Moody said...: That's the beauty of the move: it wouldn't. Those who want to carry on using LAMP would: MySQL benefits. Those that could be moved to SAMP, would: MySQL benefits.

The only danger is if Sun *really* alienates the open source community, but you wouldn't be so short-sighted, so that's not likely to happen.

Bottom line is: you're OK, MySQL is OK, and GNU/Linux, er, is less OK....; 10:33 pm
Anonymous said...: Ah. Finally someone talking about what actually may happen. I totally agree with the post and am fearful what will happen to LAMP. I am an entrepreneur and with no LAMP, my kind will be in trouble for sure. SAMP is not we want to get - we are too old for that now ;) and LAPP (M replaced by Postgres) is a possibility I can see, but that sounds scary as well. Checkout my entries at my Blog.

Medhavi.; 11:17 pm
Glyn Moody said...: Thanks.; 7:42 am