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Sun is aiming for a leadership position in the Solid State Drives (SSD) arena, by announcing new product lines of flash drives and backing them with significant developments on the software side. The company claims it is the first major systems vendor to add an end-to-end Flash-based disk product line to its portfolio, giving customers 3x better performance at one-fifth the energy consumption of spinning disk drive offerings.

MySQL AB, property of Sun Microsystems, reversed its decision about releasing advanced MySQL 6 features under a closed source license. Last month it was announced that the upcoming version of the widely used database server would not contain certain closed source encryption and compression backup extensions. Reportedly, those would be included only in a paid enterprise version. Now, according to a blog post at mysql.com, the decision has been reversed and MySQL will remain fully open source.