“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)…'”