Our very favorite reaction to the Sun-MySQL acquisition came from industry pundit John Dvorak who calls it 'perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions.' He says that given Sun's abominable track record with acquisitions and the fact that Sun can't afford to spend a billion dollars on a company with $60 million in revenue coupled the fact that MySQL is 'the most competitive and biggest threat to Oracle,' he's close to being convinced that Sun is acting as a 'stooge' for Oracle, which wants it dead. The MySQL code can be resuscitated from a fork.