Sun Drops $1 Billion for Open Source Developer MySQL AB Posted in Software, web by Joe on the January 17th, 2008 As a developer, this is huge. Depending on what Sun does with MySQL in regards to its open source-ness, this could change the way I do business to some extent. Channel Insider says: Sun Microsystems Inc said on Wednesday it will buy open source developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion, allowing it to expand into an estimated $15 billion database market. This could also change the way Sun does business. Either way, it’s a huge purchase. If you liked this Joe Tech article, subscribe to the RSS feed for daily updates. Submit this story to: [ del.icio.us] [ Stumble it!] []

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1. Jason - GorillaSushi said,
   
   

   on January 18th, 2008 at 4:19 am

   Wasn’t it Sun that originally released the code for Open Office? At least they have a record of not being evil with all of their code.

   Hopefully that’s the case since my site is entirely open source and DOES use MySQL

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