Yes, they are all social media sites and services, but they all also run with MySQL. MySQL is in the core of all these system, it is the place where users and their content is storaged, a database system.
MySQL is free and therefore it allows innovators like Mark Zuckerberg, Jimmy Wales and many others to create services which we all love and use in our everyday life either in our work, entertainment or in our networked social life.
But now MySQL is under a serious threat. Oracle - one of the MySQL's competitors - is trying to acquire Sun Microsystems who possesses the rights to MySQL. Since teh Oracle is the market leader of the proprieraty database systems it is been afraid that the company will kill the MySQL and end its Open Source policy. This can really affect to the services we all use today and damage the development of next facebooks and wikipedias.
If you want to see what services run with MySQL, here's the link: http://bit.ly/6sMqm5.
Finnish inventor of the MySQL, Monty Widenius, has started a petition for EU's competition authorities who still can deny the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. Go to the address: www.helpmysql.org and sign the petition now, and invite your friends to do the same. Facebook group 'Save MySQL from Oracle' has roughly 2300 members. Petition is signed already by 20,000 people (situation on 5th Jan 10).
The coming digital capital of culture, Live2011.com, will run with mySQL. At least that is the plan, so if you wondered why this was blogged, there's the answer.
And happy new year to everyone!
Jarmo
from Live2011.com team @Turku2011
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