Oracle buys Sun Microsystems
I have speculated previously about what would have happened to Sun’s projects if IBM bought them, but had never considered Oracle a serious contender for acquisition. Well, they surprised me and they have acquired Sun for $7 billion. This appears to be not great news for MySQL as Oracle’s main product is their database. I’ll be following this story closely over the next few days as more details come out and we get a better idea of what Oracle plans to do with Sun’s properties. Hopefully this works out well for both sides and no massive layoffs / project cancellations come of it…
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