I think this is a great step for Sun. It enters them into the huge database market with the leading database system, and further commits them to an open source initiative (i hope). <!--More-->
With Sun’s resources behind MySQL, they should be able to really beef up mysql’s backup/replication issues. yay!!!
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml
More info from the CEO: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/
