Oh My, Oracle and Sun are buying

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database And then Oracle announces that it’s buying BEA. (Will it become BEAL? Bill, Ed, Alfred and Larry?)

RAD 6 and MySQL

I’ve been spending time with the IBM Rational Application Developer 6 (IRAD 6) which is the next iteration of Websphere Studio Application Developer 5. There are some neat things. The support for UML is better than WSAD 5.1.2 for example. JSF support is about the same though with no easy way to modify the palette….