Why was Larry Ellison so eager to buy MySQL?

When Larry Ellison, director of Oracle, announced on Monday the acquisition of Sun, he did not say a word about MySQL, its competitor in the small DBMS market. This segment remains uncovered in the Oracle product line. Everyone remembers well how passionately Larry Ellison longed to seize this Swedish company three years ago . Throughout 2006, Larry Ellison repeatedly offered to redeem MySQL, but three Swedish friends, the founders of MySQL, invariably rejected his proposal from the “evil empire”, which took off thanks to the collaboration with the CIA , after which MySQL sold to Sun.

Now, Ellison’s dream has come true, and he doesn’t even say that he bought Sun just for the sake of MySQL.

In the light of all the known facts, some analysts think that MySQL is not a competitor to Oracle look very strange. This is too narrow a view on things, because Ellison’s long-term plans are not taken into account, as well as the prospects for the development of MySQL itself (for example, in version 5.4 of this DBMS, support for 16-processor x86 servers has already appeared, and in some tests performance has increased by 40,000% ) .
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By the way, by a strange coincidence, the release of MySQL 5.4 was scheduled for April 21, but the day before there was a deal with Oracle.

via betanews