Re: Ammunition

Yes, Sun has a clear "we want to control this" relationship with open
source software, and I mentioned it when I was up at MIT/Harvard and
there was a round-table discussion with a Sun guy there.  Yes, they are
involved with open office, but their general approach is more
proprietary.

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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Guys,
>
> > > "If you want to save...money, make the default database MySQL. It's
> > > free, it's bundled [with Sun's Solaris software], you've got the whole
> > > open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo and Google
> > > can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly there's a
> > > huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well."
>
> BTW, I was witness to some of the inside story behind Sun's selection of
> MySQL.  They didn't want to adopt PostgreSQL because it is "too chaotic" and
> "nobody is responsible", i.e. there's no corporation they can strike a deal
> with.
>
> Or, to put it another way:  Sun is a company which keeps its OSS projects
> close to its chest, and makes you sign over your code to Sun if you want to
> contribute.  Is is any surprise they like MySQL?
>
> Fortunately, the OpenOffice.org development team remains PostgreSQL-friendly.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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