Big news today. Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB for around $1 Billion, in $800 million cash and $200 million options. Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 [...]
MySQL Performance Blog — InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks. Great test and lots of figures and graphs. It highlights two things. (1) Falcon is far from being mature, Jim still got lots to do, but I guess that’s still pretty impressive after 11 months of work (2) MyISAM toasts InnoDB in read performance is [...]
There has been a series of acqusitions amongst database companies. Oracle bought InnoBase Oy and Sleepycat, two makers of transactional storage engine for MySQL. MySQL AB has then acquired Netfrastructure, a web aplication development framework. However, what MySQL AB actually acquired is not just the company + its software, but the main brain behind it. [...]
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