{"id":467,"date":"2008-01-20T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/20\/mysql\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T00:46:09","slug":"mysql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/20\/mysql\/","title":{"rendered":"MySQL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun bought<\/a> MySQL.<\/p>\n

Also, Sun’s CEO {has a blog, doesn’t know how to resize images other than changing the HTML attributes}.<\/p>\n

Remember back when they were a little below $5 a share and I said I thought they were going somewhere?<\/p>\n

Next time I’m putting my money where my mouth is. They closed at $15.92 a share on Friday.<\/p>\n

Of course, some<\/a> are wondering whether this was a good buy. Not necessarily whether MySQL is good (it’s perhaps the most widely-used database in the world), but whether it makes sense to pay a billion dollars for it, when it’s (1) primarily an OpenSource product, and (2) going to take something like 20 years of revenues to break even. While I don’t quite buy the bit about it being a conspiracy with Oracle to kill the project, you should check out the page they link to, Sun’s list of acquisitions<\/a>. It’s so bad that Sun appears to have a photograph of a dumpster with the Sun logo on it. (Okay, it’s a shipping crate. But it doesn’t make a ton of sense, and you have to grant that it looks a little bit like a dumpster.) It reminds me of when Sun bought Cobalt for $2 billion<\/a>, and Cobalt went belly-up shortly thereafter. (I still think RaQs could be hot sellers today, by the way, if they were still being made. To take a company doing incredibly well and have it go belly-up in under a year takes some incredible mis-management.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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