• This will not be the first time Sun have failed pushing hardware I remember back in 1996 I could not get a price quote on Sun's Spark. The problem is Sun, IBM, HP and Red Hat and many other companys sells some version of Unix. I don't think it is practical for companies to buy MySQL instead of any other RDBMS Sybase included because it comes with limited features.

    But MySQL getting ACID compliant storage is not complicated because ANSI SQL Transactions are a Unit of Work nesting is added by vendors and all uses Save Points to enable nesting but Save Point implementations differ because you can only roll back Save Point if your SQL Server is 2000 Sp3a and above. This MySQL can get with Peter in MySQL team because ANSI SQL have done the complex basic engineering.

    The way I see it Sun could make money keeping web developers happy something MySQL was doing before Sun. And again I cannot compare MySQL to Microsoft because Microsoft had the multi talented Jim Grey from the start MySQL just found the money to hire Peter Gulutzan. Jim Grey can only be compared to Oracle's Jim Melton and I will take Jim Grey over Jim Melton any day because I can understand what Jim Grey writes and creates for software development.

    Kind regards,
    Gift Peddie