A few days ago, at the China stop of the Sun MySQL global tour held in Beijing, the most common word reporters heard was "Open Source (Open)". As Kaj Arnö, vice president of global open source community relations for MySQL at Sun, expressed it in Chinese: "MySQL has always been consistent along the way."
After Sun announced the acquisition of MySQL for US$1 billion in January this year, the industry has been very concerned about the future development of MySQL. There have been various speculations. Opinions supporting this acquisition believe that Sun and MySQL are a complementary combination, because Sun did not have its own database products before, and Sun and MySQL have many things in common. For example, Sun itself is the largest open source software supplier. From one perspective, Sun's acquisition of MySQL is on the same path and complementary in content. It is simply a match made in heaven. Another reaction was that after the acquisition, MySQL could continue to support PHP, Ruby and Linux platforms. Kaj Arnö replied: LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) will still be LAMP, and we will not change it just because it was acquired by Sun. He changed it to SAMP. Of course, in the future, MySQL will strengthen its support for Solaris, but its support for Linux will not change.
Before being acquired by Sun, MySQL had a development history of 12 years and had more than 400 employees around the world. Now, Sun has begun to build the business model that is critical to MySQL's success - investing first to expand the user and developer community, and then creating commercial services to attract paying users (rather than locking in paying users) to accelerate the industry's transformation from proprietary The process of transformation from the technology stage to the open network platform stage.
The trend of the entire IT industry developing towards open source is becoming more and more obvious, and using open source in enterprises is no longer a very rare thing. Sun is leading the charge. After the merger of Sun and MySQL, the technical advantages of the two companies have been fully integrated. For example, Sun's multi-threading technology, ZFS technology and DTrace technology can be perfectly integrated with MySQL's database engine technology Falcon to achieve an amazingly high cost performance. , thereby achieving the true value, global support and reliable quality and performance that customers ultimately want for open source software. It provides unlimited possibilities for the community and will make an important contribution to global open source actions and provide a secure open source platform. Promote the development of the network economy and pave the way. Sun has entered the US$15 billion annual database market by acquiring MySQL. After MySQL is recruited by Sun, it will also share Sun's numerous resources in the industry and market, allowing MySQL, the happy little dolphin, to swim faster and more efficiently. Far.
According to MySQL download statistics, the MySQL database is downloaded more than 50,000 times a day on average. According to download statistics from different countries, the country that has downloaded the most MySQL has long been the United States. Since March last year, China has It replaced the United States as the country with the most downloads. China is an important market for Sun MySQL and a hot spot for open source software. In early November this year, Sun MySQL will hold the Asia-Pacific User Conference in Beijing. This will be a grand event for open source databases. More than 500 open source DBMS experts from around the world will gather in Beijing to exchange and analyze the experience and development of open source databases with MySQL users. .