That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane...  Lenny Bruce is not afraid...

Sorry, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this article this morning.  Yeah, I'm probably overreacting, but still the idea of everyone's favorite little open source database getting gobbled up by the folks that brought us Solaris is, well, a little disheartening.

All sorts of speculation about what that means for the future of MySQL, but any major changes in licensing, packaging, support, etc., would have to be way out on the horizon.  And though the logical side of me seriously doubts that Sun would do anything to really screw up MySQL, the other part wonders just how likely it is that they'll want to take the "L" out of "LAMP."  Or the "M"...  

Then again, if PostgreSQL took some of the market from MySQL, would that be such a bad thing?  If nothing else, it leaves the door open for all sorts of witty jokes about "LAPP" dances...  Especially here in Portland, where open source and strip clubs both play a big part in the local economy...