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Sun Acquires MySQL

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced yesterday that they have acquired the Open-Source database platform MySQL. This is a huge purchase and one of the largest acquisitions of an Open Source entity that we’ve ever seen.
The goal, says Schwartz, is to put a Fortune 500 vendor behind the innovative technology powering many next generation web-based [...]

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