Sun's planned deal to acquire MySQL will strengthen its open source story

    Date: 01/16/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: mysql, software, database, sql

    Sun announced Wednesday that it is buying MySQL for about $1 billion -- $800 million in cash and $200 million in options. The news comes on the same day that mega proprietary database software giant Oracle announced its intent to buy middleware giant BEA. The deal,...

    Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1889

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