Jonathan is a software guy, however Sun is a hardware company. The software will be used to sell more hardware. Having been a partner with Sun for 8 of the 11 years, that is the way their top resellers are wired as well. They could give a damn about software unless it helps sell more hardware. Enter mySQL.

I can almost guarantee that the mySQL purchase was looked at from the perspective of big databases need big iron to run on. That’s good for Sun, let’s buy the company.

I hope mySQL holds its turf, gets the enterprise features it needs and the support from Sun that it deserves. But at the end of the day, mySQL is software and unless they figure out how it will sell more hardware, it’ll be a billion dollar database toy that runs really well on Sun Hardware.