With the great news of MySQL being acquired by Sun Microsystems I am feeling on top of the world! The reason is simple. I have been using MySQL for quite a long time for building many of my web based projects on different scale.. its my favorite database! Now when my favorite company takes up the responsibility to make it better, what could be a better combo offer?? 
Jonathan's blog talks more about it and you can check it out here
I'm sure that the whole XAMP community is delighted with this news!! 
