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Old 01-26-2008, 06:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Interesting Sun Microsystems buys MySQL for $1 bil
PC World - Sun to Acquire MySQL for $1 Billion

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Doesn't mean it's not interesting. I can't believe they sold for only 1 billion.
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Is just a DB programing language as opposed to a software package.
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Is just a DB programing language as opposed to a software package.
You idiot, MySQL is a full DBMS, not a 'DB programming language'. Now STFU.
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Doesn't mean it's not interesting. I can't believe they sold for only 1 billion.
Given the companies revenue comes almost entirely from support contracts the company really isn't worth that a lot. If large scale deployments like Digg and Facebook get their way MySQL will start to take more of Oracles client base and those support contracts will go through the roof.
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