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Mike · 01-26-2008, 06:49 PM

PC World - Sun to Acquire MySQL for $1 Billion

Just one of many articles regarding the purchase.

iamstupid · 01-26-2008, 07:26 PM

Dude thats almost two weeks old...

tweak50 · 01-26-2008, 07:44 PM

Doesn't mean it's not interesting. I can't believe they sold for only 1 billion.

iamstupid · 01-26-2008, 07:50 PM

Is just a DB programing language as opposed to a software package.

Insomniac · 01-26-2008, 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iamstupid

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.

Insomniac · 01-26-2008, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tweak50

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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