Acquiring ???

[...] Le risposte da parte del team di MySQL sembrano positive, anche se qualcuno preoccupato c’è sempre, ora bisognerà aspettare qualche giorno per conoscere i piani di SUN ed il reale futuro di MySQL, non mancherò di aggiornarvi. Segnala presso: Etichette: Annunci, Database, DBMS, FOSS, glassfish, MySQL, netbeans, open source, SUN [...]

The PostgreSQL support business is still firmly in place, and Josh Berkus is positive about Sun acquiring MySQL - he says

Sun is not dropping PostgreSQL support. It’s Sun’s goal to be the #1 data center vendor, not the #1 MySQL vendor or #1 Oracle vendor. So Sun will continue to support PostgreSQL and other DBMSes alongside MySQL. In the world of databases, there is no “one size fits all”.

[...] Q: What have the reactions to the news been so far? A: Generally positive, from my vantage point. As noted some have questioned the valuation, and others are reasonably skeptical, and both Glyn Moody and Matthew Aslett over at the 451 Group were decidedly mixed on the news. But reactions within the two firms have been almost uniformly positive, and outsiders like Andi Gutmans (Zend), Mark Radcliffe (DLA Piper), and Matt Mullenweg (WordPress) are all reasonably enthusiastic. [...]

[...] CEO, Marten Mickos, explaining his reasons for abandoning the company’s IPO in favor of being acquired by Sun. What made him and the open source database company’s top brass change their minds [...]