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For many years, MySQL has been the best-known open-source relational database. Sun bought it and the company earlier this year, leading many to wonder what the business strategy would be. This week, the CEO of MySQL revealed part of that strategy -- the introduction of proprietary add-ons that will only be distributed to commercial customers.
Reaction in the open-source world has been quite negative. What does this shift mean for MySQL?
Gartner is out with a new report that predicts that soon all businesses will use open source software--although there are some open source warnings too.....
Wired has an interesting item on supercharging Canon digital cameras using open source software.....
When asked about the future direction of Sun Microsystems, one of the company's new managing directors highlighted open source as a key focus.....
Dojo has stabilized and released a new version of its open source Ajax toolkit, backed by IBM, Sun and AOL....
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Sun continues to support open source by putting its money where its mouth is, in ways both large and small. You may have missed it in all the clamor about their $1 billion purchase of MySQL, but this past week Sun also made some moves to lend support to the Python-on-Java project Jython.
How so? They did this by hiring ex-Chander developer Ted Leung and Jython maintainer Frank Wierzbicki to work full-time on dynamic languages at Sun.
In a move designed to make MySQL enterprise friendly, give prospective IT hardware buyers more reasons to consider Sun and further fuel Microsoft's Open Source heartburn, Sun announced today it is acquiring MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and debt.
