"Sun just announced its acquisition of MySQL AB, but for several months the open-source database has been getting the performance tracing integration with the Solaris platform that it needs to follow through on Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's commitment to performance improvements.
"Schwartz wrote on his blog, 'MySQL is already the performance leader on a variety of benchmarks--we'll make performance leadership the default for every application we can find (and on every vendor's hardware platforms, not just Sun's--and on Linux, Solaris, Windows, all)...'"
