Smooth integration of Sun and MySQL should serve the open source community _ MySQL

The smooth integration of Sun and MySQL should serve the open-source community. when Sun paid $1 billion to buy MySQL, the biggest problem was the obvious cultural conflict. Sun has been a closed source code software company for a long time, so this merger case caused many concerns in the open source code community. However, Sun successfully eliminated any concerns of MySQL developers during a well-designed gathering on the 15th.

This is also the first large-scale developer activity after the transaction was completed in lunar January this year.

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz joked at the MySQL Conference & Expo: these free software is enough. After hearing the expected laughter, he quickly assured the audience that: do you want to know our secret plan? This is the service (open source code) community. Everyone in Sun represents an opportunity. One of the open source code traditions is standing for a meeting.

Schwartz also deliberately stressed that Sun's 11 thousand engineers had a similar background. Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL, was equally optimistic about the development progress after the merger. He specifically pointed out how many companies are interested in trying MySQL. Mickos also said that the MySQL community has reported and fixed 386 errors so far this year, and only 2007 program patches completed in 997 throughout the year. In the past, we questioned the program maintenance efficiency of MySQL.

I met a Sun employee during my break and told me that the real problem was not whether Sun would change MySQL, but vice versa. The anonymous employee said: MySQL is Changing Sun's culture. We used to fall into a lot of boring disputes to maintain our exclusive rights, but those are all gone.

Developers should not worry too much about Sun's participation until now. Eric Reeves, a developer from Houston, Texas, said: they seem to have long been open-source. I think everyone hopes that the current situation will not change much. (MySQL) has too many community support. if Sun turns too fiercely, it will only find trouble.