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Sun Drops $1 Billion for Open Source Developer MySQL AB

Posted in Software,web by Joe Colburn 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.

Sun Buys MySQL

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.

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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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