MySQL's on defense this week, & they've bought a company & hired that company's founder to prove it. The media's seeing this as a response to Oracle's purchase of Sleepycat last week, but I'd hope there's more to it than that.

"MySQL said it acquired Netfrastructure Inc., a privately held U.S. company that makes tools and server software for building Web-based applications, for an undisclosed sum. Starkey, who was Netfrastructure's founder and president, becomes a senior software architect at MySQL, the company said."