Earlier today, Sun announced that it will be acquiring MySQL. This is an interesting turn of events in Oracle’s silent battle over MySQL. With Falcon still years away from being production-ready, and Oracle owning the most popular and stable storage engine for MySQL (InnoDB), what are your thoughts on this acquisition and the effects (both positive and negative) it may bring to end-users?

Several of the announcements can be found below:

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080116/20080116005349.html?.v=1