Posts Tagged with ‘MySQL’

Up until now IBM has been seen as weak in the online marketplace. This is in spite of investments in companies like Linux, Apache and Eclipse. With its financial backing of EnterpriseDB open source it has declared its intent to finally create a more substantial online presence, and will go head to head with Sun Microsystems, already a heavy hitter in the open source DB market.
EnterpriseDB are the makers of GridSQL. Now that they have decided to open source GridSQL [...]

Last month Leslie asked if 2008 would be the year of Open Source, and I commented that most successful Open Source applications ended up bankrolled and under the control of one of the major industry players. Sun just rolled one more Open Source app under it's gigantic umbrella, this time purchasing MySQL AB for 1 billion USD. It may be shaping up to be the year of acquiring Open Source.
In the old days, if you needed a [...]