On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:12:05 +0000, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL
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>| Sun Microsystems, Inc. has said that it has entered into a definitive
>| agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of
>| the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1
>| billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in
>| enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's
>| announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms
>| for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source
>| contributor says Sun.
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>http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/15752/sun-microsystems-announces-agreement-acquire-mysql
>The only possible bad thing is that they'll optimise for (Open)Solaris, not
>GNU/Linux. They can try grabbing Web servers this way. And what about the GPL?
Solaris and linux aren't microsoft style kluges. No optimization is needed
or even possible. What are they going to do, invent a new library
interface, rewrite MYSQL to use it and then put a piss poor version of the
interface library for linux releases? Sun will endorse bill gates for
president first.
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