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Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB

From Sun Microsystems web site:

Sun announced an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases. This acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market and reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

More information from Sun Microsystems, Cnet and MySQL web site.

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One Response to “Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB”

  1. Morpheo says:
    23/01/2008 at 12:46 pm

    And here some comments on the issue by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president of Sun Microsystems: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/in_a_vortex

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