Comments on: Week in review: Shake-ups in Silicon Valley

Oracle and Sun announce merger, while Apple apologizes for the Baby Shaker game in its App Store. Also: Insecurity on the Internet.

[Julie Allen]

The extreme utter arrogance of persons in the Silicon Valley and the entire SF Bay Area sickened me for the 4 pathetic years I had the misfortune of living there.

I can only hope someone eats a little "humble pie" but even in this situation I have high doubts. It's really sad that I was so disgusted by the shallow minded (IMO) ppl. of the SF Bay Area that I never ever want to go back. I would never advise visiting the area to any friends. It's a part of my life I wish I could forget forever. I have better memories of visiting slums in Tijuana. I am not joking at all.

[zkysr]

Sorry you could not make it in the Bay Area, but I am glad to here that feel at home in the slums of Tijuana.

[Fil0403]

Let's see how they "integrate", but Java and MySQL are certainly valuable products/technologies.

[ploneglenn]

Oracle has tried to purchase MySql in the past and has purchased the major transactional back-end for MySql. I hope that they are not doing this to poison or sunset MySql in hopes that MySql users will move to Oracle instead. I have speculated on this in more detail here.

http://ploneglenn.blogspot.com/2009/04/oracle-to-acquire-sun.html

MySql and Oracle and pretty different when you get into the details. They serve different markets so, please Mr. Ellison, don't kill MySql.