Sun buys MySQL and other interesting tidbits
January 16, 2008
OK, well, I thought I’d be able to find a few more interesting tidbits, but these two are interesting enough to me for a Wednesday morning. Obviously the Sun/MySQL thing is big - will they use the acronym SPAM for Solaris/PHP/Apache/MySQL? I claim “first post” on inventing that acronym, although I’m sure I’m not the first. Or perhaps Java Apache MySQL (”JAM”)? Or maybe even MySQL Apache Sun (or Scripting) Java (”MASJ”)? Pronounce MASJ as “message” spoken in the Deep South.
But seriously, given my current work with Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), I’m really curious as to what this will do for MySQL licensing. Sun has a history of really bizarre licensing (’Sun Community Source License’, anyone?), and making their licensing byzantine enough to require people to be more paranoid about Sun stuff than other projects. I truly hope most of those issues are vestiges of a “pre Schwartz” time, and that going forward Sun will be much more direct and simple about their licensing terms.
Additionally, what might this do for MySQL/Java integration? I don’t think there’s been much of anything there so far, but maybe we’ll see the ability to do in-db scripting in Java? Integrate Lucene as another available storage engine? At the very least, perhaps they’ll start bundling JDBC drivers directly with MySQL so you don’t need to go download them separately (though, IIRC, it’s IBM that owns JDBC stuff, not Sun).
phpBB is running on the Project Zero PHP interpreter (written in Java)
The ProjectZero team is moving along on their PHP interpreter. I’ve been watching it here and there since middle of last year (well, perhaps September?) I’m mixed on this, but in general I think it’s a good idea. It may serve as a catalyst for some people to start straddling the PHP and Java worlds more directly, and may lead more people to Groovy as well.
Anyway, any thoughts from any of you out there on these two recent annonuncements?
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