Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL for one billion dollars
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 classea that it is moving over sounds strange. I can hclasse 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