Sun News & Articles

You’ve all heard the news by now that Sun went out and snapped up MySQL for a hefty $1 billion. Yes, that’s right…turned the open source community on it’s ear…or did it?

So…what do you think about the Sun/MySQL deal? Reckon it’s good for open source in general? Does it affect your orientation towards MySQL? What about the price? Are they nuts?

That’s exactly what we asked a bundle of the movers and shakers around the open source CMS community. And they were mostly upbeat about the deal.

Which is great, but…boy, how we would have loved someone to come out guns-a-blazing against those Sun guys, or MySQL, and given us some controversy or blackmail material. Next time we do this, we’ll get them on the sause first.

Stop the press! Sun Microsystems, that little company that brought us Java, the Solaris OS and a bucket load of other things, has made a bold plunge into the enterprise database market. They have announced the acquisition of the privately held open source database vendor MySQL for a whopping US $1 billion.

In an effort we’ve decided to dub the free code revolution (IBM joined recently), Sun Microsystems has announced it will be licensing a handful of the key components of Java ME and Java SE under the open source GPL (general public license).

Java ME and Java SE are its mobile and desktop platforms, respectively.

The company has also built an online repository for open source Java products, dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Community.

With the introduction of the Sun Blade 6000 Family of server hardware, Sun Microsystems is hoping to make it easier for IT administrators to provide the kind of flexibility that software developers need to build truly innovative and revolutionary products.

Deviating a moment from its mobile endeavors, the prolific Sun Microsystems took the time out of its busy year to release StorageTek 9990V, an enterprise storage system that boasts storage virtualization and thin provisioning features.

While Sun vigilantly stormed the ECM gates, competitors Microsoft, Palm and European developer Symbian were strutting for the wireless Internet market.

Well, now Sun’s beams are back on mobile, and the long-dormant Internet innovator is bringing some new tricks along with it.

Open Text and Sun Microsystems join forces to deliver a powerful e-mail management offering. The solution targets the big boys — having been designed to serve global organizations facing problems with monitoring and archiving volumes of correspondence — and is of course fueled by the on-going race to meet regulatory compliance demands.

Sun has announced its support of the AJAX application model by joining the OpenAJAX Alliance, as well as the Dojo Foundation. Sun plans to actively participate in these two communities, driving open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies.