Oracle plans to spend more money developing MySQL than Sun does now. Oracle expects to continue to develop and provide the open source MySQL database after the transaction closes.

Sun is also offering premium tech support for its MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2. The OpenSolaris OS is available for no charge, and is currently in beta testing on Amazon EC2.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer ...

This TOTD ( T ip O f T he D ay) shows how to create a Persistence Unit (PU) for a MySQL database using NetBeans IDE. This PU can then be used in any of Java EE artifacts (JSP, Servlet, EJB ...