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Default Sun Buys MySQL For $1 Billion

Open source enthusiasts were reeling this week when Sun Microsystems announced that it will be purchasing MySQL AB, the company behind the development of the popular MySQL database software, for US $1 billion.

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if you cant make it then buy it... sun can not create Database to compete with oracle so they bought MySQL
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but it is opensource only
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Default Re: Sun Buys MySQL For $1 Billion

That's it? I kind of thought they were worth more than $1 billion.

Afterall youtube, a video sharing site with thousands like it, sold for $2.1 billion.

mySQL powers something like 80% of websites with databases.
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