database group

Peter Eisentraut , a long-time and well-known PostgreSQL developer, is joining Sun's Database Group.

Roberto Zicari interviews Sun's database group head Marten Mickos.

"Q1. It appears as if the positioning of MySQL has been refocused more predominately on the Web applications / SaaS / ASP market in the last year or so.

Would you agree with this, and if so, what does that mean regarding the potential of MySQL to penetrate further into the enterprise?

News that MySQL was to bring out a closed-source add on has provoked a storm of protest across the Internet.

Here is an interview with Marten Mickos, formerly CEO of MySQL, and now head of Sun's database group, trying to explain what is going on.