Well, we speculated and wondered during the IBM Sun acquisition rumors and then settled back into our happy rut after that died down. Now that Oracle and Sun have announced a Definitive agreement, things look a little more serious. And what does this mean for Symas?
Well, Oracle bought Sleepycat Berkeley Database (BDB) quite a while ago. There was much concern among the community about the future of BDB and its relationship with OpenLDAP. There have been a couple of minor speed bumps but, in general, we think BDB is pretty much on the track they were on before the acquisition and the OpenLDAP team is still happy with BDB as its primary database technology for most deployments. So, if that’s a clue, we expect Oracle will make a number of adjustments but will find MySQL Cluster an interesting addition to its Open Source Software offerings. We’re hopeful that this move is as neutral to positive as the last one was.
