"The decision to go with Microsoft was based on overall value - it was also predicated upon their endorsement of and agreement to help promote MySQL. Stay tuned

"The decision to go with Microsoft was based on overall value - it was also predicated upon their endorsement of and agreement to help promote MySQL. Stay tuned for more details on what we'll be doing together." From: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blow... This has always been my favourite example of Shwartz' inability to grasp reality. Perhaps I am interpreting this incorrectly but Microsoft "help[ing] promote MySQL?" This deal didn't sound sane in January 2008 and it looks even more ludicrous to me in 2010. By early 2008 the company had lost most of its value despite having a strong brand and a talented pool of engineers. What was going on at Sun? Deals to ship dinky browser bars with Java, JavaFX (which stood no chance in a market dominated by Adobe with Microsoft nipping at their ankles), no roadmap for JAVA 7, inability to see the potential benefits of ZFS on Linux - really, we could be here all evening. You don't "save" a company - You run a company and you should be "saving" it every day with every decision you make.