The headline says it all

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL. Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration.

After reading about the news actually first on SitePoint’s Tech Times, i visited MySQL.com, which was happily displaying its latest press release . So the news is surely confirmed , what remains to be seen , what are SUN’s plans to do with their new acquisition . MySQL being one of the key components of the LAMP platform , will surely continue remaining as open source but it would be surely interesting to track how SUN help towards the betterment of the 10 million strong community of users.

PHP is a impressive coding language, and is widely used in major part of our projects. Using the php language with mysql databases hugely successful websites around the world have been created. Every day newer developments are made to make PHP a more robust and secure solution for coders and website owners.
However , recently we have embarked upon converting / adding certain parts of older projects / websites into using AJAX - sometimes on request by the website owner , and sometimes we have offered to convert where we felt using AJAX would give better usability to the project.
One such project involves a Voting / Rating application which was made almost an year ago . The site featured a rating where the current AJAX enabled system would make the voting much more user friendly, instead of the form submit . This would allow the end user to participate in the voting / rating many more times than before - which is the theme of the website , thus keeping him more interested and loyal .
Another project involves enhancing a backend admin panel, which involves various options such as creation of categories, sub categories, and users . The admin backend page usually loads with little bit of time , and for an admin who needs to create around 65 categories , making 65 page loads / refresh was little painful. But the way it is being developed now , creating a new category would be somewhat like , as you find inside the Wordpress admin area . This would provide better usability - this time to an admin , not just an end user .