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artov
April 20th, 2009, 12:09 PM
Sun and Oracle today announced a definitive agreement for Oracle to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash. The Sun Board of Directors has unanimously approved the transaction. It is anticipated to close this summer. (SUN (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-0420/index.jsp)).

Everyone has being worried about SUN's MySQL, but what about SUN's filesystem ZFS (Zetta File System)? Oracle has a filesystem of their own, OCFS (Oracle Cluster File System).

(There has being talk that OS X 10.6 will have support for ZFS; that is why this news is relevant to macosx.com forum, I thinkk)
ElDiabloConCaca
April 20th, 2009, 12:24 PM
There has being talk that OS X 10.6 will have support for ZFS...
10.5 already has support for ZFS -- read under Mac OS X 10.5 client, read/write under Mac OS X 10.5 server.

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/technology/filesystem.html
ora
April 20th, 2009, 01:10 PM
The MySQL issue is of concern though, maybe it will be spun out again.
icemanjc
April 20th, 2009, 03:25 PM
Dannng, that is a whole lot of money. That is over seven billion dollars.
I haven't heard much of Oracle lately; is it possible that someone could give a brief summary of what they are doing now or direct me to a place where I can find it?
ElDiabloConCaca
April 20th, 2009, 03:44 PM
http://www.oracle.com?

Portions of Oracle are very similar to mySQL's operations -- application servers, database servers, enterprise-level support, etc.
nixgeek
April 20th, 2009, 08:57 PM
MySQL is open source so it can be forked it need be. There's also PostgreSQL, but I don't know if there's a Mac OS X version.
Mikuro
April 20th, 2009, 11:05 PM
MySQL is dual-licensed under the GPL and a proprietary license. The GPL is too restrictive for some uses, which is why dual-licensing works. The problem is, any forks of MySQL would be under the GPL and only the GPL.

PostgreSQL (which does run on OS X, btw) has a more liberal BSD-style license. But a lot of people are very invested in MySQL, and converting from one to the other isn't as simple as snapping your fingers. I can see how people would be apprehensive about this.

Will Oracle run MySQL into the ground by merging it with their own products, making a hideous FrankenDB?

Come to think of it...is there anything else they could do with it? :p