I think the general consensus is that Oracle bought Sun for Java. Databases at Oracle have certainly done better than Solaris though. OracleDB is still a cash

I think the general consensus is that Oracle bought Sun for Java. Databases at Oracle have certainly done better than Solaris though. OracleDB is still a cash cow and MySQL I believe MySQL is still the most popular Open Source relational database ( well, other than SQLite probably ). Monty forked MySQL to MariaDB literally the day after Oracle bought Sun but MySQL remains far more popular.