Sun Buys MySQL AB for approximately one billion US dollars. The news is quite significant. I have already written about it here. But what does this mean for PHP?
Could it be that more attention will be paid to Java compatibility? Possibly.
If anyone has this concern, MySQL will continue to remain open source. However, Sun could use this to push its programming language Java more aggressively, as Java has recently been losing ground on the web to PHP and Ruby.