Sorry to steal an REM line for a blogpost title, but that is literally how I felt the moment I just read the headline. Which headline? The one that goes something like this…. “Sun to Acquire MySql“.

Ok, Ok… so it is about a month old. But for someone who has been heads down coding with looming client deadlines for over that entire month, this was news to me. And why do I think it is the end of the world? I mean, Sun is not a bad company, are they?

When large companies get involved with Open Source things go south. No matter how philanthropic an organization appears from the outside, the politics of power and personal agendas ALWAYS screws up something as pure as a product like MySql. For sure they will want to “move the product to the next level” (corporate code for monetize this bitch until she screams). Sorry for the coarse terms, but that is how it seems to go with big companies.

Remember, Wall Street does not give a damn about Open Source. They want numbers. And the last time I checked, Sun (NY: JAVA) was a public company that must make a buck.

Oh Well. By the way… I don’t blame MySql for taking the money, I’m just disappointed from a user perspective.