MySQL acquisition by Sun
January 17, 2008 3:47 pm GeneralFirst, congratulations to Sun and MySQL on this surprising marriage! I hope that you live happily ever after.
One comment – I’ve been reading some of the press and interviews around the takeover news – you know the kind of thing, “What does this mean for MySQL?” There’s a lot of “we’re delighted, this will allow MySQL to continue to grow, synergy, reinforce our enterprise offering, etc, etc”.
One thing I’m missing is the joyous bouncing around of the founders & shareholders saying “Yippee! We’re rich! We’re rich! Filthy stinking rich!” Or maybe it would be just me…
But then, they’re not really, compared to the YouTube guys, or the Facebook guy… they’ve only spent 15 years building up a business for a $1bn valuation, compared to working 18 months on a web-app for a $6bn valuation…
January 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I heard a few rumors from some industry folks: that a large part of the company was owned by bankers and VCs and that stock options had not been distributed to many employees.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Maybe the business world dont give the same importance to infraestruture as to beautifull products. Maybe it is just Sun people that is not crazy as Google people. Maybe emergent enterprises like Google need to show, from time to time, how filthy stinking rich they are. Maybe it is signal of a super inflated web2.0 bubble. Maybe …
January 17th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
“compared to working 18 months on a web-app for a $6bn valuation…”
…that’s primarily based on mysql (at least youtube) đŸ˜€
January 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Perhaps because of the abysmal reaction to ESR’s tasteless ‘I’m wealthy’ post in ’99?
January 28th, 2008 at 5:53 am
can some one tell me if MySQL will still available as free source or do i need to pay something ($$$$$) for it’s license?
Thanks!
Rakesh