Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL for one billion dollars
- Wed Jan 16, 2008
- By Martin Kaba
- Filed under: Linux Advocacy, Open-Source
- 2 Comments
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Sun Microsystems confirms that it would be buying MySQL AB the firm that sells the worlds fastest growing open source database for about $ 1 billion. I’ve been using Mysql for about six years now and the idea that it is moving over sounds strange. I can hide my mix-fillings on this; anxiety and disbelief. Anyway in the real world never say never. I hope Sun Microsystems would follow the tradition and keep this icon Open Source and free.
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11:24 am on January 18th, 2008
Bah, just like yahoo buying mybloglog.. and google buying youtube.. and yes i am happy for them. as long as it’ll actually help them improve their program/software/site .. etc.
5:47 pm on January 18th, 2008
Hi Chiq; for me it is not thesame like Yahoo buying Mybloglog or Google buying… it is more like Google buying Firefox. Mysql together with Firefox, Apache, and Ubuntu/Debian are major Open source icons. With these you’re in a free world. Just think of running your website free on Apache with Mysql database on a free Debian platform using a minimalistic Firefox browser