Its cool that Sun have bought MySQL for $1 Billion (USD) as announced in the “winds of change are blowing” post over on the Sun blogs. Its also interesting as there are a few people at Sun looking into Semantic Web technologies, could this mean some additions to MySQL to make it more useful on the Data Web?
However, the acquisition news is definitely going to overshadow the other bit of news, which is far more exciting:
And finally, this acquisition will kickstart a new set of investments Sun will be making into the academic community. Why universities? As we continue to invest in open source software development across the world, it’s apparent that nearly all roads lead to academic environments - and it’s high time we (as an industry) started watering the trees at their roots. It’s one thing to say you’re committed to education, it’s another to put your money where your mouth is. Within the next 60 days, Greg will be announcing a new set of global research fellowships designed to advance the state of engineering on the internet. (Stay tuned on this blog, and on Greg’s, for updates.)
See, so cool! I’ll be definitely checking it out, especially if it may go in line with some of the things I’ll be doing during my masters next year. I am very glad that companies are starting to see the value in “watering the trees at their roots”!
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