Wow.  That’s about all I can say initially.  I am sure I don’t have to explain anything about Sun or MySQL to most of my visitors, and anyone that knows me already knows that I am a hardcore user and supporter of both.  I don’t know though, if this announcement is good news or not.  I think only time will tell on that one.  Really, it all will come down to what Sun decides to do with MySQL.  They have an opportunity to help MySQL grow and become even bigger … but then again, they can drop the ball and make it flounder as well.  I seem to remember a note a while back about Sun buying PostgreSQL too, I’ll have to look back and see if that ever came about, and if so, what ended up happening with it.  For now we’ll all wait and see!  Read more here …