sun acquires MySQL

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Jan 17 12:09:27 UTC 2008


Sur wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> * Michael A. Peters wrote, On 01/17/2008 11:31 AM:
> [...]
>> I'm not quite sure what Sun wants with MySQL.
>>
> 
> I guess this has sth to do with Oracle's acquisition of BEA.
> This looks like an attempt to provide options to a certain type of
> customer locked into Sun hardware and Oracle DB (so that they don't lose
> them altogether to the competition), but I can't reckon whether there's
> a fight or not between Oracle and Sun.
> 
Sun sells a lot of kit based on Intellish CPUs.

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