Sun successfully acquired MySQL

February 27th, 2008 at 9:42 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

Sun broke out the news that it has successfully completed the acquisition of MySQL. The acquisition was smooth. The acquisition accelerates and opens up opportunity for Sun to take a more prominent role in the US$15 billions database market worldwide. This acquisition will bring more synergies to Sun for the millions of global deployment of MySQL. These deployment include Google, Nokia, Facebook, China Mobile and Baidu.

Sun has been active in Open Source and well known for its contribution in OpenOffice. Sun will take MySQL to greater heights with this acquisition. This acquisition will open up more opportunity for my software business as well as provide better and easier access to MySQL/Sun technical. Read here.

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Sun announces agreement to acquire MySQL

January 25th, 2008 at 10:11 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Technology · Comment 

On January 16, 2008 Sun entered a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL, developer of the world largest Open Source database. The move reaffirms Sun as a leading provider of hardware and software platforms for the web economy.

The news is really exciting and as expected. Sun has been involved in open source development and released great products like Solaris 10, OpenOffice and now MySQL is going to be under Sun’s flagship. With the involvement of Sun in MySQL development and the funding, Sun will be able to leverage MySQL further from its current position.

More exciting news and features from MySQL and Sun will be expected to breakout very soon.

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