According to this piece of fluff from IDC and hosted on Oracle's site MySQL will become "part of the open source business unit" additionally "MySQL will have an independent sales force and an independent development organization, both of which Oracle is retaining from Sun." So it kind of sounds like it will be an independent operating unit underneath another business unit. However, having worked for Oracle for a time I can vouch as to the rather byzantine organization of the company and I'm not sure if it matters much how they're classified because they'll be treated however Oracle wants. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/analystreports/corporate/idc-mysql-065208.pdf Josh On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> Yes, but isn't Java part of Sun which is now Oracle? > > I thought Sun was gone, swallowed whole by Oracle, but it turns out that > Sun has become a subsidiary of Oracle. Thus Sun still exists and Java > seems to be "under the Sun," but I'm not sure if MySQL is part of the Sun > subsidiary or its own subsidiary. > > http://www.sun.com/ > http://www.oracle.com/us/products/mysql/ > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL > > Mike > > >> On May 11, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Mike Miller wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 11 May 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote: >>> >>>>> Runs on Java, so it will work on any OS under the sun. >>>> >>>> Nice pun! :) >>> >>> >>> MySQL isn't under the Sun anymore. >>> >>> Has anyone else noticed that Oracle backwards is "el caro"?: >>> >>> http://translate.google.com/#es|en|el%20caro >>> >>> Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >