[ug-bosug] Sun acquires MySql

[Binu Jose Philip]

S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> writes:

> The news is already "a day" & "hundreds of posts across the net" old.
>
>      http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml
>      http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
>
> Sun has in the past pushed for PostgreSql on Solaris. Now they'll be
> supporting both. I wonder how this will play out.
> Looks good to the open source world in general. Innobase, a core
> component of MySQL is owned by Oracle and MySQL was an attractive
> takeover target.

The new Falcon thingy, how does it compare with InnoDB. Not at
present, I read that it isn't anywhere near InnoDB. In the future
is the design good enough to replace InnoDB?

cheers
Binu

> -Shiv
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