Sun has acquired MySQL for $800 million in cash and $200 million in stock. The move is consistent with Sun's recent open source strategy and should certainly shake up the market by making Sun a real player in the database space. It's said that only 1% of MySQL users actually pay for deployment support - but that does not change the fact that Sun will now have one of the key parts of the LAMP stack. I presume that Sun will try to leverage MySQL to sell more X86 Linux hardware into LAMP stack users.
It should be noted that MySQL is Sun's second open source database product (Java DB is the first).
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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