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MySQL Team Working On Drizzle, A Faster Database For Massive Traffic Concurrency
Brian “Krow” Aker chatted with Rackspace’s CTO a few months ago about memcached and Gearman. Memcached is a distributed memory caching system that many large social networks use to handle all of their constant traffic. Gearman is when a server calls out other faster servers to perform functions that they are better suited for. Rackspace’s CTO asked Aker if he had ever though of creating more of a slim version of MySQL to work with Rackspace servers. This question turned into a project called Drizzle.
Drizzle will have several components of MySQL stripped from it’s functionality including Stored Procedures, Views, Query Cache, Triggers, Prepared Statements, etc. Drizzle opens up the development of MySQL to the open source community and now it won’t take years to have patches created.
Drizzle developers are constanty refactoring servers which will make the database system faster and more stable. Drizzle won’t replace MySQL databases, but will enhance the experience. Although the new database doesn’t have a timeline, the stable version of Drizzle is expected to release in 3-4 months.
Aker stated that this new open source project wouldn’t be possible without the Sun’s support. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) acquired MySQL for $1 billion, $800 in cash and $200 in stock options.
Related Links:
1. Drizzle Wiki
2. Blog of Michael Widenius, MySQL founder and original developer
3. Brian Aker’s blog
4. Drizzle on Launchpad
Categories MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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Sun Microsystems Acquiring MySQL For $1 Billion
“Today’s acquisition reaffirms Sun’s position at the center of the global Web economy. Supporting our overall growth plan, acquiring MySQL amplifies our investments in the technologies demanded by those driving extreme growth and efficiency, from Internet media titans to the world’s largest traditional enterprises,” stated Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President at Sun Microsystems. “MySQL’s employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun’s open approach to network innovation. And most importantly, this announcement boosts our investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the Internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a competitive weapon.”
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) announced that they have reached a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB for $1 billion. MySQL AB is an open source database company that many of today’s biggest websites use, Facebook and YouTube included. All the top blogs use MySQL as well including Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOM, etc. The software that Google uses to power AdWords, the company’s biggest revenue source, depends on MySQL.
Sun’s goal for MySQL is to spread it among more of an enterprise environment through Sun’s relationships with Intel, IBM, and Dell. LAMP, the software mash-up of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl is also very commonly used to create dynamic web sites. MySQL’s open source database software has been downloaded over 100 million times. The software gets about 50,000 downloads per day as well.
MySQL will be integrated into Sun Microsystem’s Software, Sales, and Service organization. Marten Miickos, CEO of MySQL will join Sun’s senior exec. leadership team as well.
“The combination of MySQL and Sun represents an enormous opportunity for users and organizations of all sizes seeking innovation, growth and choice,” stated Mickos. “Sun’s culture and business model complements MySQL’s own by sharing the same ideals that we have had since our foundation — software freedom, online innovation and community and partner participation. We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy.”
[Information Source: MySQL press release]
Categories MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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Google Acquiring Communication Security Company, Postini Inc. For $625 Million
Google Inc. [a.k.a. Earchsay Engineway Uggernautjay (Pig Latin for "search engine juggernaut")] will be acquiring web communication security company, Postini Inc. The amount paid for the company is $625 million.
Postini’s services will be a valuable add-on for Google Apps. As 1,000 small businesses are signing up for Google Apps per day, Postini will most likely be used to protect the information transferring between these businesses.
“Larger enterprises, however, face a challenge: though they want to deliver simple, useful hosted applications to their employees, they’re also required to support complex business rules, information security mandates, and an array of legal and corporate compliance issues. In effect, many businesses use legacy systems not because they are the best for their users, but because they are able to support complex business rules. This isn’t a tradeoff that any business should have to make,” stated Dave Girouard, VP & GM of Google Enterprise on the official Google Blog.
“We realized that we needed a more complete way to address these information security and compliance issues in order to better support the enterprise community. That’s why we’re excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Postini.”
Postini is a private, San Carlos, Calif.-based company. August Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital, Pacifica Fund, Summit Partners and Sun Microsystems Inc. are all investors in Postini who will potentially see a nice return on investment.
Postini intends on using Google technologies to develop a new suite of products. The synergy created through this acquisition also aligns Google’s partnership with Salesforce.com.
References:
[1]Â Reuters: Google to buy Web security co Postini for $625 mln (via Yahoo! News)
[2] The Official Google Blog: Welcome, Postini team
[3] Pulse 2.0: Google AdWords Officially Merging Into Salesforce.com Apps