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Re: Sun to acquire MySQL AB...



 I expected this news to be met with more buzz, but if you saw the Boston 
Globe that day, the bigger news article (in terms of story inches, and 
headline size, etc.) was Oracle buying BEA. 

On Jan 16, 2008 10:13 AM, Seth Gordon <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> ...for approximately <dr-evil>one billion dollars</dr-evil>. 
> 
> Note that InnoDB, the database engine that MySQL uses for ACIDity, is 
> owned by Oracle, which is sorta kinda Sun's competitor. 
> 
> Press release: http://mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.html
> 


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