Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 11:53 UTC, submitted by tsedlmeyer
We've been debating the merits of a possible IBM-Sun deal for a while now, and even Sun itself seemed to be in the dark as to if it would be a good idea to be bought by IBM. These debates are now all moot: in a surprise move (at least, I didn't see any speculation about it) Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems, at USD 9.50 a share, which equates to a total of 7.4 billion USD. The news got out through a press release.
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RE[3]: What about mysql?
by boblowski on Mon 20th Apr 2009 16:43
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Thanks, interesting read! Must spend more time keeping up with those things :-)
RE[3]: What about mysql?
by AxiomShell on Mon 20th Apr 2009 18:37
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Or even Drizzle (https://launchpad.net/drizzle).
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You mean something like MariaDB, which has been started by the lead developer of MySQL and a co-founder of MySQL AB due mostly to his disagreement with the disastrous way that Sun has been driving the latest release of MySQL and that led the said developer to terminate his relationship with Sun Microsystems?
http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB