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Sun Plunks Down $1BN For MySQL
'MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation,' said Sun's CEO and president, Jonathan Schwartz, as Sun today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, the open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration.
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ClarifyJoe commented on the 16 Jan 2008
Isn't Tim O'Reilly still of the board of MySQL? Will he become a board member of Sun?? |