Giuseppe Maxia took this picture at JavaOne, 2008, just a couple of days ago. It shows Marten Mickos (MySQL) donning the Java DB T-Shirt and giving a friendly hug to PostgreSQL evangelist … |
These three open-source databases, now in OpenSolaris SXDE 1/08, offer all the needed features for most of the applications out there.
"Three databases to run them all"...
... and of course, Sun offers solutions with commercial database vendors, like the Sun and Oracle's Enterprise Grid Solutions.
Sun Microsystems has released Solaris Express
Developer Edition 1/08, Sun's free OpenSolaris-based
distribution targeted at developers.
This release brings together integrated web stack (Apache, MySQL,
Ruby, Php, PostgreSQL), NetBeans 6.0, interoperability with Microsoft's
CIFS protocol, support for virtual machines via
Sun xVM hypervisor, based on technology
developed by the Xen
community, Sun HPC ClusterTools based on the Open MPI effort.
There are …
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Sun has announced an agreement to acquire MySQL. (Reports can also be found at WSJ and .)
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, discusses the acquisition on his blog.
Kaj Arno, VP of community for MySQL, has also discussed the
acquisition form MySQL perspective. |