[General] Sun to buy MySQL for $1 billion

[bashar abdullah]

Hi,

I think both acquisitions are major. MySQL is gonna increase Sun's position
in the support for open source, and they will be able to provide perhaps
packages solutions with strong support to the MySQL DB, which some people
tend to think there is no such support. Funny some Oracle officials told me
that few days back "MySQL has no entity behind it. It's just open source"!

As for BEA, Oracle Application Server is really behind # 3 and BEA and
WebSphere are neck to neck. Now, Oracle have jumped great distance to reach
IBM, as Oracle CEO said they just can't catch up with them. They had to
acquire them. Now, anyone thinking of Java solution would say "WebSphere or
Oracle?" And since the best enterprise solutions for HR, Finance, CRM, and
others all come from Oracle after these acquisitions, it would be preferred
to go with single vendor for better support and perhaps special rate prices.

[Recently, facebook acquired Plaxo, which is responsible for OpenID.
So, now some major Open-Source software is coming to the hands of
known entities, and hopefully, will become mainstream and stay open,
as it was before acquisitions]...

I am really concerned about this part. Are you sure of this information? I
searched the net, and read the About us page of openid and Plaxo, there is
no mention of facebook name there. As to me, I love the OpenID and already
use it on Q8igg.com, however I trust them, I don't trust what Facebook would
do with user profiles. They have a very bad record so far. Do you have any
more details about this, and links preferably.

Thanks

On Jan 17, 2008 7:58 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Mr. Burhan, I realized that facebook is running on Apache as
> well. (checked with curl -D header.txt facebook.com) .. I thought it
> was a Microsoft house, but MS did buy a share of Facebook (5%).
> [
> http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+facebook+site%3Aslashdot.org&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
> ]
>
> Recently, facebook acquired Plaxo, which is responsible for OpenID.
> So, now some major Open-Source software is coming to the hands of
> known entities, and hopefully, will become mainstream and stay open,
> as it was before acquisitions.
>
> Mr. Burhan,
>  I'm not quite sure that Oracle didn't get a good deal out of BEA.
> Middleware is not a small area, and a lot of organizations &
> governments run on middleware, like BEA & WebSphere.
> In fact, the ministry of interior has a deal with IBM to implement its
> portals using WebSphere, which provides portlets, mashups, document
> management systems, content management systems, and a lot more,
> (without mentioning AJAX support for all these).
> Check out the areas WebSphere tackles:
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/websphere/
>
> I believe this acquisition of BEA puts a threat on IBM, since now
> Oracle can fight it in the DB & Middleware areas, but judging by
> Oracle's lame approaches & very-high prices, there's a possibility
> that they'd fail.
> It would be nice to see more competitors, so that consumers get the
> benefit of reduced prices, but some competitors don't know their heads
> from their knees...
> --
>       Majed B.
>
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