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.
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.
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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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on January 18th, 2008 at 4:38 am
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