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 intiative (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/