zafile - 2:33 am on Jan 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

Out of curiosity, I took a look at [webmasterworld.com...] which is titled Databases.

Guess what? I mostly see discussions about MySQL.

OK.

Sun has a good track record with the open source community mainly with their office suite.

The problem is their office suite isn't the best replacement for Microsoft Office. Everyone except the users of www.groklaw.net and similar Web sites prefer Microsoft Office.

On the other hand, the acceptance of MySQL is quite different. Everyone likes MySQL.

It seems to me that what Sun hasn't accomplished with their office suite or open Solaris will accomplish it with MySQL: users of Linux, FreeBSD, other BSD variants are now at Sun's mercy.

Pretty nice move by Sun.