Will I still be able to use MySQL for free? Will it still be open source?

in the words of Gazillionaire "Great Deal!"

Mojo

Just another subsidiary of a big Unix company.

MySQL is doomed.

This still does not beat Oracle buying BEA. That is a major shakeup. Sun will probably leave MySQL alone for the most part, but Oracle will not be doing that with BEA.

wow -- I had no idea Sun had $800 million in cash. Have they had a profitable year this century?

edit -- ok, I guess they are making money (I just looked up their stock info). My impressions must be a few years out of date.

Will it go the way of Netscape and many others ? Popular, free, sold for $$$, lack of real innovation, squeezed of money, looses market and disappears.
I want to know how the trademark/support owners can be paid so much for so many contributions made by others who don't receive a cent.
Could Sun create a SQL/database accelerator extensions in their CPU’s ?
Could Sun create paid add-ons that extend features, management and/or reporting ?
Existing GPL code has to remain under GPL and could prevent sale of any product that takes that away.

Gah, this kind of sucks. Sun for a while was starting to push PostgreSQL, which I find far superior to mysql and just as free (cost wise, more or less free depending on whether we're talking speech or beer)

Larry Ellison is gonna be pi--, uh, annoyed ;)

bummer.