Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Jan 2008 14:34 UTC, submitted by BluenoseJake
MySQL AB and Sun have announced that MySQL has been bought by Sun. "Sun Microsystems today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately USD 1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the USD 15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor." More here.
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Looks to me like Sun wants a peace of the LAMP pie and realized that having excellent support for PostgreSQL is not enough.
I don't really think this will make a large inroad on x86 web servers running Linux but for any Sparc houses who don't necessarily want to struggle with the Sun Java Enterprise System stack, it could be a god send.
Only thing I'd be worried about would be putting all my support options in one basket.