Re: SUN

[Saifi Khan]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Arun Khan wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009, Namita wrote:
> > > From: Zubin Wadia <zwa...@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: 20 Apr '09 20:17
> > >
> > > :) Oracle bought them. Master stroke from Uncle Larry.
> >
> > Now, what does this mean for MySQL ? :-)
>
> status quo probably.
>
> Oracle acquired sleepy cat (Berkeley DB) and to the best of my knowledge
> they have not messed around with the product.
>
> -- Arun Khan
>

MySQL is "dual licensed".

There are two MySQL source trees
. proprietary source tree
. gpl source tree

Oracle DB is proprietary as well.

They cover the entire range of the "commercial" database offerings.

BerkeleyDB -- MySQL -- Oracle starter -- Oracle Entrprise

Thus they have offering from the 'file' to 'web' to 'enterprise'.

Additionally, Oracle does not need OS to run its database servers.
So OS license cost is reduced from the initial cost of ownership.

Those of us, who remember the V-O-S initiative, will appreciate
that "continuity" for Solaris customers is very important and
acquiring Solaris for "chilarr" (remember Sun has 1.5+ Bn in
bank which Oracle gets as part of acquisition too)
to provide that assurance is important.

Now, if only Oracle can acquire 'Veritas' from Symantec.
VxVM and VxFS are OEM'd by HP :)

thanks
Saifi.

[Zubin Wadia]

Don't forget about distributed memory grids as well - Oracle covered that 2 years ago by acquiring Tangosol and their Coherence technology.

Having Coherence in their arsenal gives them no.1 status in extreme transaction processing scenarios.... derivatives trading / capital markets etc.

Cheers,

Zubin.