From Jonathan Schwartz's Blog:
But the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an industry insider, you'll know what that means - we're acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.
This is nice. Sun is exceptionally beating expectations in recovering from their slump. And more importantly, like IBM and other pioneering companies, this move further puts Sun in a position that really understands and embraces the economics (wikinomics if you will) of openness.
Learned this from the Phil. Java Users Group mailing list. They also mentioned that Sun was in talks of acquiring BEA (who produced of WebLogic, an application server of note).
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ReplyDeleteHeh. Oracle was faster :
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