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?
Sun has already made at least one choice of GPLv3. what about MySQL and IBM?
And Google? Google experimented with Solaris in the past. So many changes to
consider...
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