Ryan Tomayko

PostgreSQL, Rails, and why you should care —

Nice short list of PostgreSQL features everyone should be thinking about when choosing between MySQL and postgres (and each with a link to more detailed information). Then a wrap up that talks a bit about the licensing situation:

One of the major reasons for trying out PostgreSQL, regardless of it’s feature set, is it’s license and community. This can’t be more true these days, when MySQL AB was consumed by Sun Microsystems, which in turn recently got acquired by Oracle. While I doubt that the product itself may die off, the fact that the copyright to the code, and the direction of the database system itself may and will be dictated by a company like Oracle is a deal breaker for me.

I suppose it’s a bit on the FUD side but those are my feelings exactly.

Sun and MySQL: I don't get it —

Oops: “At $1 billion … Sun paid a multiple of 10 times sales for MySQL today. Optimistically assuming a 20% profit margin, they are looking at a multiple of 50 times earnings for a return on investment of around 2% per year. Optimistically.”

Give Me a M: The MySQL/Sun Q&A —

Steve does the Sun/MySQL aquisition Q&A and speculates on some interesting effects of the deal: “… YouTube sold for $1.6 billion, and consumed virtually no software. If that acquisition was to take place today, they would have been buying from Sun.”

Sun acquires MySQL —

What?!