Sun to buy Oracle - Sunoracle?

Man - a lot of things have happened over the last few weeks, and I've been a slacker about keeping up with the blog. Apologies for that. My hope was to keep saving them up for a longer length post, but for one reason or another, they never quite got to the incubation stage in my head. I'm going to try and post them - a catch-up in a few paragraphs, newest to oldest:

Oracle agrees to buy Sun:

- SUN Microsystems has been swirling in a sea of acquisition rumors for weeks. IBM was long rumored to be the suitor with announcements allegedly imminent - until talks broke off a few weeks ago. Perhaps the fix was in all along, but this morning the NYTimes is reporting that Oracle has won out. You can read the article here.
This poses some very interesting questions, but most prominantly in my mind: What happens to MySQL - a robust SQL Server database competitor, available free under the GNU - General Public License. According to wikipedia, MySql has over 11 million installations - all of whom have administrators who are probably asking the same question. "Will Oracle continue to own a distribute a product that is a direct competitor to it's own bread-and-butter platform?" My guess is probably yes, the PR ill-will of the alternative wouldnt' be worth the hassle. But realistically, I wouldn't expect them to dump a whole lotta effort into the deal either.
By the way... Sun - now Oracle - also owns Java and Open office. Same questions apply.
Interesting times.