Sun将以10亿美元收购MySQL

Sun Microsystems今天早上公布了以8亿美元的现金和2亿美元期权收购开源数据库领导者MySQL AB的计划.
无论是对于Sun还是MySQL,这都是天作之合,MySQL它永远不缺用户,它是LAMP中的“M”,世界上绝大多数Blog和Web2.0程序依赖它运行,对于Sun来说,收购MySQL将让它的创始人著名的“网络就是计算机”言论迈进一大步,通过收购MySQL将有助于增强公司的数据库产品线,例如你可能会更准确地说, "网络加数据库就是计算机" .


                Sun微系统称,公司将以8亿美元的现金和MySQL的所有股票,并将MySQL提供价值约2亿美元的期权.Sun微系统称,MySQL的客户已包括了Google、Facebook以及诺基亚等大公司,通过收购不仅将有助于增强公司的数据库产品线,而且还将增强公司在包括数据库市场的企业IT市场中的地位.通过收购MySQL,将使公司在价值150亿美元的数据库市场实现质的飞跃,并有助于公司同微软、IBM和甲骨文等竞争对手进行抗衡.

Sun已经对开源事业孤注一掷,包括Solaris操作系统,Java和Ultra-Sparc,无一例外,它将成为对开源生态系统的最大贡献者,下一步Sun将会如何吞下并消化利用MySQL,让我们拭目以待.

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http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/01/16/sun-acquires-mysql/

Sun acquires MySQL                                                        This morning, Sun Microsystems announced plans to acquire MySQL AB.

After all the industry speculation about MySQL being a “hot 2008 IPO”,this probably takes most of us by surprise — users, community members,customers, partners, and employees. And for all of these stakeholders, it may take some time to digest what this means.Depending on one’s relationship to MySQL, the immediate reaction uponhearing the news may be a mixture of various feelings, includingexcitement, pride, disbelief and satisfaction, but also anxiety.
Being part of the group planning this announcement for the last fewweeks, I have had the fortune to contemplate the consequences duringseveral partially sleepless nights (I usually sleep like a log). Andover the coming days and weeks, I’ll provide a series of blogs withvarious viewpoints of the deal.
First of all, let’s point out a couple of facts about SunMicrosystems — since all MySQL stakeholders may not be fully up tospeed about Sun.
Facts on Sun Microsystems

• Founded 1982 by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy
• 34.200 employees worldwide, 13.9 billion dollars (9.4 billioneuros) in revenues FY 2007, market cap (total value of all Sun shares)about the same as yearly revenues
• Grew astronomically with the Web, suffered from the Web bubble, now profitable over the last four quarters
• Lead by Scott McNealy until 2006, now by Jonathan Schwartz (a prolific blogger)
• The world’s biggest contributor to Open Source: Open Office, Java (now under GPL), GlassFish, NetBeans — and soon MySQL
• Environmentally friendly; large numbers of distributed employees working at least partially from home
• Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, just south of Cupertino (MySQL’s North American headquarters)
• Counts some of the worlds most brilliant innovators amongst its current and past employees

For me personally, I’m excited to get the opportunity to activelycontribute to the successful integration of MySQL into Sun. I want tomake an impact in merging our corporate cultures, and I look forward tomaking that a bi-directional process. Since I am based outside the US,I am particularly excited about meeting the many Sun engineers locatedin Hamburg (Germany), Grenoble (France), Prague (Czech Republic), StPetersburg (Russia), Beijing (China) and Bangalore (India).
But let me now turn to the more general planned implications of Sun’s acquisition of MySQL AB.
What does the acquisition of MySQL by Sun mean for MySQL users?Given Sun’s proven track record as the largest contributor to OpenSource, I think MySQL users have plenty of reason to feel happy aboutthe acquisition. There are many companies that attempt to ride the waveof positive attention towards Open Source, but in my judgement, Sungets it right. Sun gets Open Source. Java has been released under theGPL. There’s the OpenSolaris operating system. There’s Open Office /Star Office. There’s the GlassFish application server. There’s theNetBeans IDE tool. And more.
Sun’s track record is embodied by individuals with a solid set ofFOSS values, such as Simon Phipps (Sun’s Chief Open Source Officer),Ian Murdock (Debian founder, now Sun’s Chief OS Strategist), and JoshBerkus (PostgreSQL lead). I’ve met all three in various FOSS arenas, Irespect their work, and I am looking forward to be working closely withthem.
Anxiety on the part of MySQL users may stem from Sun’s success withJava and Solaris. Will MySQL’s support for other programming languagesand operating systems now be given less attention?
Absolutely not. MySQL is still being managed by the same people, andthe charter is still the same. There is no need for reducing the set ofplatforms or languages. It only makes sense for us to continue tosupport defacto Web development standards like LAMP, as well asemerging ones like Ruby and Eclipse. This deal is about addition, not subtraction.
But let’s dwell on the topic of Solaris a bit. Solaris has a specialposition in the heart of MySQL, as it was the first platform underwhich MySQL was developed. Linux came second. Internally, code coveragetests were long performed just on Sun. And with the DTrace probesplanned as part of 6.0, some types of optimisation of MySQLapplications are the easiest on Solaris.
I would expect that having access to the topmost Solaris and Javaexperts within the same company will accelerate our development for thebenefit of MySQL users on the Solaris platform, and in the Javaenvironment, respectively.
But I don’t expect that in any way to be at thecost of other popular operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS/X,other Unixes etc.) or development environments (PHP, Ruby on Rails,Perl, Python, ODBC, C++, C#, VB etc.). MySQL grew with LAMP and MySQL without LAMP at its core is simply unimaginable.It was MySQLs part of LAMP that interested Sun in the first place.Hence I don’t see Sun having a platform migration strategy, but tocontinue to be an integral part of the dot in .com.
So while the news may be especially good for MySQL users on Solarisand/or Java, the news is definitely good irrespective of environment:As part of Sun, the MySQL database will have immediate access totechnical, marketing, OSS developer relations and sales rescources thatwould have taken us years to build as an independent company.
What does the acquisition of MySQL by Sun mean for the core MySQL community?I’d like to think that the acquisition of MySQL by Sun will be seenas good news also by the core group of users who form the active MySQLcommunity. This is because Sun is a safe haven for MySQL. Sun knows Open Source, and to the extent things change, I expect Sun to addvalue to our community. I don’t expect huge change, though. We continueto work with our quality contributors, we continue to provide our MySQLForums, the Planet MySQL blog aggregator, we remain on the #mysql-devand #mysql channels on Freenode, we provide MySQL University lessons,we meet at the MySQL Users Conference. We’ll put effort into connectingthe many FOSS enthusiasts and experts at Sun — whom we will now learnto know better — with our active user community.
What does the acquisition of MySQL by Sun mean for the MySQL employees?Admittedly, this blog is not directed at MySQL employees. We have adifferent, internal blog called “Village MySQL” for that purpose (asopposed to “Planet MySQL”). But many of our users, community members,customers, and partners have close relationships with MySQL employees —and you may be interested in what Sun’s acquisition of MySQL means forthe employees.
For employees, Sun’s acquisition means continuity. Mårten Mickoswill continue to lead us, and our executives and key engineering leadsplan to join Sun. In addition, our existing engineering staff will beinvited to come over as well. Sun executives have made us feel verywelcomed and valued.
Very important for our employees is the fact that we can continue towork on Free and Open Source software. We can continue to work fromhome (as most of us do, including myself). Titles, reportingstructures, and long-term goals may change, but as acquisition goes,the Sun culture as I’ve experienced it so far seems fairly similar toours.
And — whether it’s destiny, divinity or just good luck — we get the opportunity to digest all of this together, during the MySQL All-Company Meeting here in Orlando. It goes on this week until Saturday 19 Jan.
Being acquired by Sun is unique for all of us MySQLers. But for twovery special employees, it’s something even more. I’m thinking of our founders, Michael “Monty” Widenius and David Axmark.I’m very happy for them. Sure, the transaction has a financial impacton them, and it’s positive. But we’re humble Scandinavians, so we don’tflash money, nor even talk about it. More importantly, I can see their heritage being in good hands at Sun.They didn’t develop MySQL in order to Get Rich Quick; in fact, theyrejected offers that would have accomplished that goal during theBubble. They developed MySQL in order to have a positive impact on theworld of computing. And as a step in that direction, they took inventure financing.
VCs are more motivated by money than our founders,and obviously look for a return on their investment. That involveseither an IPO or a trade sale. Of all candidates to acquire MySQL, I cannot imagine a more ideal buyer from a founder perspective than Sun Microsystems.If I know our founders right (and I’ve known Monty since the late 1970sand David since the 1980s), they will use this deal as an opportunityto accomplish even more within the space of Open Source and SunMicrosystems.
Congratulations, Monty and David! And congratulations, MySQL users, community members, customers, partners and employees!
P.S. I promise more later!


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开源世界的重要消息。。

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by vroom101 52 minutes ago
UNBELIEVABLE! ... i mean ... WHAT! ... HOW? ... WHY?!?!

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第1楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 22:55:45
    哈哈
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第2楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 22:57:23
    很好 很强大
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第3楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 22:59:03
    oralce上次出多少钱啊？
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第4楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:02:34
    神州行，我看行
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第5楼 keen 发表于 2008-01-16 23:03:37
    那以后LAMP是不是要改名叫LASP了？
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第6楼 越南 发表于 2008-01-16 23:04:33
    好啊。。。。
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第7楼 AK 发表于 2008-01-16 23:04:46
    关键词：SUN MySQL LAMP Blog Web2.0 操作系统 开源



    结论：利益最大化的角逐。

    鉴定完毕! 水产出品! 必属精品! 文明用语验证码：2394
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第8楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:06:17
    没想法了.
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第9楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:06:40
    惨了
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第10楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:10:29
    收购后还能免费吗？抓狂中~~
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第11楼 loki 发表于 2008-01-16 23:12:58
    我觉得mysql应该比youtube值钱的多啊
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第12楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:14:11
    sun i love you

    sun you are gad

    sun you are root for human

    sun=ri i love sun
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第13楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:15:03
    sun的股票现在怎样了?
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第14楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:23:00
    good
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第15楼 EndlessRai... 发表于 2008-01-16 23:23:30
    怎么卖得那么贱？
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第16楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:25:14
    “它将成为对开源生态系统的最大贡献者”，不是“将”，从开放Solaris后已经超越Berkley成为贡献代码最多的组织! !
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第17楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:32:43
    晕了……
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第18楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:33:44
    引用匿名人士发表于2008-01-16 23:10:29的评论:
    收购后还能免费吗？抓狂中~~
    Sun的软件产品大部分都已经开源了，MySQL本来就是开源的，应该没有理由要变成收费产品吧?
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第19楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:43:10
    引用匿名人士发表于2008-01-16 23:14:11的评论:
    sun i love you sun you are gad sun you are root for human sun=ri i love sun
    gad....



    佩服一下您的英语
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第20楼 匿名人士 发表于 2008-01-16 23:46:05
    准备转PG了

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Please, Sun, don't f' it up!
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rhedrick  by rhedrick 2 hours ago
What's the purpose? Did the MySQL people sell out? Did they really need the capitalization? I think this is a warning to all 'free' software users - show support by sending money. Otherwise, big companies will buy up the 'free' software companies and probably screw them up.
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zorrobiwan  by zorrobiwan 1 hour ago
$1 billion ... damned !
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yule  by yule 1 hour ago
Also see

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http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20 ...
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Error601  by Error601 1 hour ago
They should have bought something decent like Postgres.
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X-Cruciating  by X-Cruciating 1 hour ago
Considering that MySQL powers some of the largest sites, this might be a nice strategic move to get a foot into the RDBMS game and wag it back to the likes of Oracle and M$. However, I hope they keep it alive and healthy for the open source community. For I cannot imagine LAMP without the strong "M" in it.
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JoaoPe  by JoaoPe 1 hour ago
WHAT? Didn't they know they could just download it and run without buying it?
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      "When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute MySQL software, you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL product."
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      Thanks for the laugh!
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       by shockingbird 17 minutes ago
      hahaha... I totally needed that morning laugh.
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       by drachemorder 15 minutes ago
      *snort* Good one. That'll teach me not to read  while drinking coffee. How I'll ever clean this mess out of my keyboard, I really don't know...
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       by TheSwashbuckler 5 minutes ago
      They couldn't just download MySQL's customer database ;-)
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       by NickMcRump 4 minutes ago
      This joke was funny when I read it on Slashdot, not so much when you copied it (unless you're the same person of course)
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vroom101  by vroom101 52 minutes ago
UNBELIEVABLE! ... i mean ... WHAT! ... HOW? ... WHY?!?!
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vroom101  by vroom101 47 minutes ago
O.K, who's next? . . . Apache Software Foundation?
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MaxiWheat  by MaxiWheat 29 minutes ago
What's next ? Google to buy PostgreSQL ?
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      Nah - Google would just make their own. But, you never know what Novell has up their sleeves... It might help them compete against Oracle - poorly. Not because of the software, but because of their past strategies.
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      No, Google is a very heavy user of MySQL.
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cledet  by cledet 28 minutes ago
Didn't see that coming.
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BrPyne  by BrPyne 26 minutes ago
NOOOOOOO!
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richardiscool  by richardiscool 25 minutes ago
I could have sworn Oracle had already bought it.
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truspect0r  by truspect0r 25 minutes ago
It's ok Sun bought it just don't turn it into a slow turd like Java.
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plizard  by plizard 21 minutes ago
select *
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hockey  by hockey 20 minutes ago
Skip the blogspam
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Mageling  by Mageling 20 minutes ago
Why does Sun have any money at all?
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alanr19  by alanr19 19 minutes ago
Thank f*ck they got it before Oracle did. Sun are relatively good guys remember. Oracle is the devils sweaty testicles.
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Waymoot  by Waymoot 18 minutes ago
According to Swedish media they got 800 million dollar in "cash" and 200 million in options.
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xdvx  by xdvx 17 minutes ago
Oh no, I hope they don't have ideas rewriting mysql on java
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PlutoIsApluton  by PlutoIsApluton 17 minutes ago
Best possible outcome I think. MySQL were going to go public this year - and would have been under huge pressure to become more proprietary. This seems to protect MySQL for at least as long as Jonathan is at the helm of Sun.
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JasonCox  by JasonCox 17 minutes ago
This is the part where I'd normally state my intention to bail on MySQL- but seeing as I only have one application running off it, eh, I'm not that concerned. Anyway, here's to Sun bringing licensing fees on part with Microsoft, gods know they're going to try squeeze every dime they (Sun) can out of us.
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connieLingus  by connieLingus 16 minutes ago
how do you buy open source software? duh don't they know they could have downloaded it for free?
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zorrobiwan  by zorrobiwan 16 minutes ago
What's next ?? BEA bought by Oracle ..

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2008_jan/bea ...

What ? It's done ??? Damned !! ;-)
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buckrogers1965  by buckrogers1965 15 minutes ago
See all you investors out there.

Open source projects can provide a good return on your money.
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r5a2k3  by r5a2k3 13 minutes ago
I'm not really sure how to feel about this.

Being a MySQL user for years now and probably the first database I've ever used, I've always liked them being on their own doing their thing. I liked the way the community was, hanging around in the official #mysql was fun and enjoyable and it was just great software, pretty much the best free database software there is and comes with it a load of professionalism.

Although, reading the blog it does look promising, I just hope sun doesn't drop the ball.

Good luck to MySQL / Sun, this should be interesting.
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johnnybluejeans  by johnnybluejeans 13 minutes ago
Sun has money?
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manicleek  by manicleek 13 minutes ago
I would have greeted this news better if it wasn't for that picture
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AlienGG  by AlienGG 13 minutes ago
I started hating Sun when a stupid judge forced MSFT to take down their JVM.
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ivandir  by ivandir 13 minutes ago
Power to the people....Oh wait :(
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karolisonline  by karolisonline 9 minutes ago
I don't like the idea, that open source software becomes owned by some big corporation. Ok, maybe Sun isn't that bad, but You never know, one day M$ will buy sun and shut down mysql project and then what?? i hope postgresql won't sell it's soul.
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infinite411  by infinite411 2 minutes ago
FUcking rat bastards. Everyone is ought to make money. Label something open source, reduce costs by having enthusiasts create the bulk of the code, then sell. What the fuck!! How can you sell something that doesn't belong to you?

What's next discreet buying blender?
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Yodzilla  by Yodzilla 2 minutes ago
Sun is a terrible company and will run this into the ground.
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Great, I was appreciate download so much sharing software and SQL, Therefore, It's good news for me.