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I've always loved the letter M, so much so I have two of them in my name. Now everyone at Sun has something to love about M, as in the M in AMP, better know as MySQL. Read Jonathan's Blog for more info on our announcement to acquire MySQL, one of the world's most popular open source databases. After the acquisition closes, Sun will add MySQL to the long list of open source software, including Solaris, which we sell support subscriptions for. Like Solaris, MySQL will remain free and open source, but customers who need world class enterprise support for MySQL will be able to purchase support subscriptions from Sun, just like they can today for Solaris.

A few of my regular blog readers have emailed me asking why I have not posted for several weeks, so here you go. First, I did manage to take some vacation with the family, and enjoyed some New Year's skiing in Mammoth, with eight feet of snow in three days! Now that was skiing. Secondly, I've started a new job at Sun. Yes, after launching Solaris 10 Update 4, two releases of Solaris Express, Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris Developer Preview, signing up OEMs Dell and IBM, and launching our virtualization platform xVM, I decided to move back to the field from my job running Solaris Marketing. I'm now leading up the Americas Systems Practice in our Global Sales Organization, responsible for all systems sales in the US, Canada, and Latin America. So while I'm not in the software group anymore, I still am so happy to hear the MySQL announcement. I'm coming into the job at a great time. Our momentum, as shown by our preliminary Q2 profit and growth numbers announced today, continues to do great. And while the software team needs to wait for the acquisition to close to sell MySQL subscriptions, I have a whole line of SPARC and x64 servers I can sell today to run MySQL on. But don't worry, I promise to find time to keep blogging.