Wow! With CNN Money predicting that MySQL will be "one of the most anticipated tech IPOs" of 2008, I guess it should come as no surprise that Sun acquired MySQL today for $1 Billion USD.
Of course, Sun is huge in the open-source community and it does not have a database server of its own, so its marriage with MySQL makes sense. There will be some anxiety within the ranks of the developers and users alike, but MySQL already addressed some of those concerns in their announcement. In short, everything we've come to love and expect from MySQL will still live on (e.g. like LAMP), so there is no reason to stress over what this means for the rest of us.
As far as I am concerned, this is another win for the open-source community!
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