Sun Microsystems bought MySQL.  Hopefully Sun will turn this simple, free database application into a useless, bloated, error-prone product like Java. 

It's slightly similar to Amazon's Kindle and its wireless service with Sprint: 

It comes with EVDO wireless through Sprint, which means that, inevitably, there will be world class Awful Crap that Kindle owners will confront, because it is impossible to involve a mobile carrier with a technology without infecting that technology with Awful Crap. When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

Hooray for big companies ruining things! #technology