thejavajar

I am proud to say that axiomaticIT.com and axiomaticIT.org are now officially running on Grails, Tomcat and MySQL. It took about 2-3 hours to create and test this simple Grails application locally and then a few hours to get everything deployed and configured with Tomcat and MySQL on the server. The application is not too complex, but it does what it needs to do and I only spent a few evenings putting it all together. I basically took a small static site and made it dynamic so content could be updated a bit easier. Grails provided the productivity, no doubt about it.

After I read on Slashdot last week that Sun had announced that they had bought MySQL, I scurried around the Web looking for reactions from the community. I knew that I would find comments that were positive and negative about the merger and I certainly found comments and posts that were basically blasting Sun and/or MySQL. Some of us have stronger opinions than others and there is nothing wrong with that.

I can easily admit that I have a dependency on Open Source technology and I think that it is great to see the community growing larger. I think that the Sun, MySQL merger is, if anything, a great benchmark for Open Source technology. For me, it is just another confirmation of a shift in software/technology momentum. I cannot say whether or not this is going to have negative repercussions in the future for either party or a 3rd party, but the community will benefit either way because the shift is not standing still.