In the first Sun Microsystems' press release, where they announced the new cloud offerings in the Cloud Expo 2009, they mentioned Zmanda, the open source backup solution, as their partner for their cloud backup system. Today during a conversation with a Zmanda representative, I inquire about their partnership with Sun's new cloud system. The company had no immediate response. I am specifically curious on how Zmanda will help backup MySQL, open source database engine, now that is owned by Oracle, not open source database engine.
Even though the markets of Oracle and MySQL are very different I will be curious to know what is their strategic thinking inside Sun/Oracle in regards their database engines. I have no idea, if the silence of Zmanda reresentative was related to the fact that he did not know how Zmanda was going to partner with Sun or if it has any relation with the idea of a cloudy horizon for our well appreciated Database Engine, MySQL.
If you have any ideas, or have read any official statement, please link them here. I will be interested to know.
Even though the markets of Oracle and MySQL are very different I will be curious to know what is their strategic thinking inside Sun/Oracle in regards their database engines. I have no idea, if the silence of Zmanda reresentative was related to the fact that he did not know how Zmanda was going to partner with Sun or if it has any relation with the idea of a cloudy horizon for our well appreciated Database Engine, MySQL.
If you have any ideas, or have read any official statement, please link them here. I will be interested to know.
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