>"This is a move that helps Sun's strategy. It pits the LAMP stack, backed by Sun, against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) .Net. It's a strong initiative," said Noel Yuhanna, database analyst for Forrester Research. The LAMP stack is a set of open source software that includes MySQL as the database -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or other dynamic scripting language. The elements of the set work easily together and can be used to build ambitious Web applications.
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>I think this move by Sun is significant.
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>I'm studying the new Hentzen MySQL book.

And if you've set your data classes to work with SQL server, it takes about two hours to churn out a version which will work with MySql... so we're fine :).