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MySQL acquired by SUN

blogs.sun.com — We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB. We're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP

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  • siavash, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1I'm just glad it wasn't Oracle who purchased MySQL.
  • ell0bo, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Oh hell... looks like i need to grab the current source before I loose my favorite FREE db! Although maybe I just worry too much... At least SUN opened up JAVA and they may not screw this up.
  • n8crawler, on 01/18/2008, -0/+0good to see SUN back in the game... way to go!
  • DantePasquale, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0As a former Sun & Informix employee, I could never understand why Scott didn't buy Informix and let IBM snatch it up. I'm so happy that IBM didn't get MySQL or Oracle as we need a viable open source database engine in the world.
  • jokeman, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0Interesting news...
  • jokeman, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0Interesting news. Waiting to hear some big advances in MySQL...

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