Belated Happy New Year
February already hey…
WWWShop Brighton has been in full swing since 04 January this year with a bunch of new projects on the Open Source front.
We have noticed that more and more large enterprises are moving away from the very expensive proprietary database and software development models and towards open source based products.
Note Oracles purchase of Sun including MySQL and Java and the rumours about their interest in Red Hat.
Note also the fact that MySQL has an Enterprise version that most people in the web based world of open source ignore.
Without being too synical we all wonder how much more feature rich the Enterprise version of MySQL will become over the next few years to the detriment of the free download. This will really be a measure of how strong people power (open source online community) is…we’ll know in 3 years Im tipping.
snip<<Oracle gets Sun for $7.4 billion, MySQL for $0
by Matt Asay>>
“What is new in the deal is that Oracle finally gets its wish to own MySQL. In 2007 Oracle offered as much as $850 million for MySQL, the third of its offers for the open-source database company.
This time, Oracle effectively got MySQL for free, as the valuation for Sun almost certainly wasn’t raised much by its MySQL asset, acquired in 2008 by Sun for $1 billion.
What Oracle will not want, however, is for its customers to get MySQL for free.
Importantly, Oracle’s new “systems” approach gives it the ability to digest a host of open-source projects like MySQL that might otherwise struggle to make money, and monetize them heavily by burying them in hardware “systems.” It’s a smart move driven by a company that knows that open source as a religion faded, and that open source as a key driver of innovative IT is just beginning.”