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thus spake the Oracle: “all your MySQL are belong to us!”

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

If you’ve not seen the news yet, Oracle is buying Sun for 10 cents a share more than IBM’s final offer (Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems). And if you’re really lagging in tech news, MySQL was purchased by Sun a while ago.

Many people were worried about Sun’s purchase of MySQL and what that would mean. MySQL is an open source database and is in use all over the internet. I was somewhat worried about where they might decide to push the commercial product as that somewhat leads the open source project.

I’m thinking Oracle is primarily purchasing Sun for their hardware, not for MySQL - MySQL is just a bonus. However, as someone else pointed out, Oracle hasn’t really been making anything new. Oracle has been buying out companies that make great 3rd party apps for Oracle, repackaging it with the Oracle brand, and selling as is - bugs and all.
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CouchDB - A Document Database

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I watched the Racklabs Tech Talk 2: Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB (speaker: Jan Lehnardt) on Yahoo! video (Part 1, Part 2). Jan also has the slides (in PDF format), as well as some context on the slides, up on his plok - CouchDB Presentation Video.

I have to say this is pretty cool technology. Stop thinking in only relational and transactional database technology. Even though this is at the alpha stage, prepare for this year’s Google’s Summer of Code… There may very well be some huge things again this year.

This would seem to fit very well in building scaling websites. If you’re not quite sure what I mean, check out Brad Fitzpatrick - Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime on Google Video.

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