Wow. Talk about your disgruntled employees. Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, MySQL’s founder and, for the moment, still Sun’s CTO for its MySQL division, greeted the GA (general availability) of the latest version of the popular open-source database system MySQL 5.1 by writing, “I am asking you to be very cautious about MySQL 5.1 is that there [...]
MySQL vice president Kaj Arnö writes in his blog that the long awaited version 5.1 of the free MySQL database is ready. Presently, source code for MySQL 5.1.30 – general availability, as well as binaries for AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and others are being distributed to download mirrors – packets are already [...]
This has been a big week on the open source database front. Yesterday, Ingres launched version 9.2 of its database, which you can download here. And today, Sun Microsystems announced the new version 5.1 of MySQL, with a near-final candidate release downloadable here, and a final version expected on December 6th.
The Ingres database is a [...]
Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications.
“If our users initially choose MySQL because of its low cost, they continue to use MySQL for its high performance, scalability and broad platform support,” said Marten Mickos, Sun’s [...]
David Axmark, a cofounder and former lead engineer for MySQL, has resigned from Sun Microsystems a few weeks after another cofounder said he may also leave the company.
“I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations,” Axmark wrote in his resignation letter, according to a blog [...]
If you’ve ever worked with and manipulated MySQL databases, chances are you’ve used phpMyAdmin to manage your databases from a Web interface. But phpMyAdmin can be a little complex; if you want a lightweight alternative, try phpMinAdmin. It’s easier to install than its more robust cousin and has an easy-to-navigate graphical user interface for most [...]
The VAR Guy isn’t making any guarantees, but he hopes Sun Microsystems articulates its MySQL partner strategy next week at the Avnet New Frontiers Conference in Colorado. Here’s why.
The VAR Guy attended Avnet New Frontiers last year. It was an impressive gathering of high-end Sun partners — the folks who influence sales of Sun servers, [...]
Openbravo — the open source ERP and point of sale (POS) specialist — is discussing a partnership with MySQL and exploring the virtual applications market, The VAR Guy learned while walking the aisles at LinuxWorld Expo. Here’s why solutions providers should take notice.
Based in Spain, Openbravo is backed by $12 million in new funding, a [...]
So what is Drizzle?
* Drizzle is what MySQL would be with a more interactive community involvement in the design of the software itself, and had targeted website deployments.
* Drizzle is a version of MySQL that is driven by Brian and the community, attempting to solve practical problems [...]
The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were very clear about Sun’s open-source strategy going forward, despite news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:
The core will always be 100 percent open source. The periphery…will not. Or might not. It depends.
In [...]
Sun Microsystems announced today that MySQL 5.1 will be available this quarter.
When this quarter? Sun won’t specify the date of the “pending†release but was good enough to post a “near final†release candidate today at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
The upgraded open source database, which Sun bought along with the company in February, features enhanced partitioning and replication [...]
As Sun Microsystems prepares to close its acquisition of MySQL, the GlassFish and MySQL communities are announcing the availability of an optimized bundled release.
The bundle, announced March 25, consists of GlassFish version 2.0 with the MySQL Community Server 5.0 (5.0.51a) and MySQL JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) driver 5.1.6. It is designed to provide developers with [...]
Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open source server software.
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s chief executive, said in a conference call on Tuesday that the US$1 billion acquisition “completed our capability to deliver a holistic, secure, open source platform [...]
Go to the MySQL Web site and try to click on the MySQL anti-software patent page, and you won’t find it. It’s the other shoe dropping as MySQL today became part of Sun Microsystems, which like the rest of the commercial software and services industry, considers software patents a necessary evil.
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Linux Warehouse has been appointed as official local distributor for the popular MySQL database in Southern Africa.
“The Linux Warehouse is now supporting the local channel of resellers who wish to implement enterprise-grade solutions based on MySQL in the Southern African region,†says Riaan van Niekerk, general manager of the Linux Warehouse.
Van Niekerk says that up [...]
In agreeing last week to pay $1 billion for MySQL, Sun Microsystems said it hopes to make MySQL’s open source database more attractive to enterprise customers. However, Sun has a lot of work to do, according to some MySQL users. It isn’t just technical fixes that are needed, they said. Although Sun described MySQL as [...]
This morning Sun Microsystems announced that it was purchasing MySQL AB for $1 billion, $800 million of which is supposed to be paid in cash. This is a huge deal in the open source community. Two minutes after I heard the news, I begged an invitation to the “no press” MySQL company meeting at which [...]
If you are curious about the Sun-MySQL deal — and why wouldn’t you be? — here are some resources for you that will probably answer most of your immediate questions.
First the primary resources:
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According to a post on the MySQL blog site last night, by MySQL’s Vice President for Community Kaj Arno, Sun Microsystems plans to purchase MySQL AB, the commercial firm selling enterprise database products built atop the ubiquitous open source database which represents the M in the LAMP open source software stack.
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It probably won’t slow the amazing growth of Microsoft’s SQL Server database, a cornerstone of the company’s earnings in recent years. However, a quirky Swedish company with a big Seattle presence may steal a bit of the limelight when Microsoft’s new database is released next spring. MySQL develops an open source database widely used by [...]