I’m sure by now you would have read the great news that is Sun Microsystems acquisition of MySQL!

Sun have been forging ahead in the Open Source world with OpenSolaris, an Operating System that scales to Enterprise proportions and is an ideal host for the number one Open Source Database Server that is MySQL.

Whether this will have any impact on the MySQL Linux / FreeBSD / Windows offerings is something I am sure the community will be watching closely, but in my experience Java runs much faster on Solaris as it can take advantage of the MultiThreading libraries that help Solaris set those performance records.
Don’t forget, it was not that long ago that combined with Sun hardware MySQL was able to set it’s own world records!.

With that in mind it should only be a matter of time before we will begin to see the fruits of Sun / MySQL’s labour and I don’t know about you but I can’t wait!.

How this move will affect the future of other database servers such as PostgreSQL and Oracle I cannot begin to imagine.
Personally I never understood how Oracle devoted so much attention to Linux when the Oracle server (and App servers) have such a dependency on Java (which as I say always works better running under Solaris )?
As for PostgreSQL, Sun have always endorsed PostgreSQL on Solaris, will we see this focus switch to MySQL in the near future?.

One thing is for certain, MySQL combined with Solaris makes for one world class package that is going to be hard to beat!!.