Did you hear Sun was buying MySQL?

With all of the buzz floating around yesterday on this topic, I decided to let some of the dust settle before posting. From everything I’ve seen, the PHP community is largely positive about the news. First, let’s take care of the important things, the best jokes. In my book, SunnySQL – first mentioned by “Evil_Work” on #phpc – was the best rename of the product. However, the best joke I saw was from my buddy Michael Kimsal’ blog post where he speculated that the new stack name would be SPAM for Solaris/PHP/Apache/MySQL.

As I said, the community at large seems to be pleased with this news. Here are the links I’ve collected so far:

• Congratulations MySQL team! – Andi Gutmans
• Dolphin in the Sun
• Positive or Negative: SUN’s acquisition of MySQL AB – CodeIgniter Forums
• Sun<<mysql – Robert Treat
• Sun to buy my employer – Johannes Schluter
• So now it happened… – Lukas Kahwe Smith
• Sun acquires MySQL – Henri Bergius
• Sun buys MySQL – now what? – Laura Thompson
• Congrats to MySQL AB and Sun! – Jeremy Zawodny
• Sun buys MySQL and other interesting tidbits – Michael Kimsal

It’s not often that I get to quote my boss on DevZone but late yesterday afternoon Mark de Visser, Chief Marketing Officer of Zend Technologies released this statement on behalf of Zend.

“This is a very good deal for the open source and web economies. It confirms the success of the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack as a web platform. The valuation of the transaction reflects the broad enterprise adoption of this platform, which is also driving our strong revenue growth at Zend Technologies. We have a long history of working closely with MySQL and are encouraged to see the senior roles the MySQL executives will play at Sun. It gives us confidence that we will be able to work with Sun, like we did with MySQL, to progress the innovation and open standards that power the adoption of the LAMP stack.”

Of couse no roundup of technical news would be complete without links to the blogs of “pundits” to tell us how we should feel about this news.

• Buying MySQL Could Save Sun – Dana Gardner
• Sun, MySQL synergies stressed in merger – Infoworld
• Open-source community sees promise in MySQL deal – Computerworld
• Sun to Nab MySQL For $1 Billion – internetnews.com
• Sun paying too much for database company MySQL – Market Watch
• MySQL and BEA: Oracle and Sun Will Be At Each Other’s Throats! – Bob Warfield
• What Sun’s acquisition of MySQL means for the software industry – c|net
• Will Silicon Valley Deals Kick Into Overdrive? – Wall Street Journal
• A few further thoughts on Sun/MySQL – 451 Chaos Group

Of course, my personal favorite headline of all the ones I’ve read so far:

• Helping Dolphins Fly – Jonathan Schwartz