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Dvorak's allegation rests on a financial premiss: "Sun cannot actually afford to spend a $1 billion on a company producing a mere $60 million in revenue and working outside its core competencies."
From there, he assumes that the deal must have been masterminded (or does he mean actually funded?) by a bigger fish altogether: Oracle. Or, as Dvorak colorfully chooses to express it...
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Dvorak's interpretation of the transaction is that Sun was sent forth to buy MySQL as Oracle's "stooge" (his word). And he doesn't stop there, either. Castigating Sun for its history of what he calls "an awful track record" of acquisitions, he anticipates that the MySQL community will vote with its feet and promptly fork the MySQL codebase:
"The only good news is that since MySQL is an open-source initiative, an immediate development fork will occur with a new open-source relational database appearing within a year or two, based on aspects of the original code.
The original MySQL will simply vanish over time, along with Sun's billion. Exactly how painful this transition will be for current users of MySQL remains to be seen."
The responses to Dvorak's musings, which appeared on Friday at Marketwatch.com, range from a few posts supporting him to rather more accusing him of blowing smoke.
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