[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:09:59PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2008, at 22:57, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > See: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
> >
> > At $1BN it is a lot of money...
> 
> Are you kidding? MySQL drives the World Wide Web (and a ton of other  
> stuff besides). I think it's a steal compared to the stupidly  
> overinflated prices of startups like Facebook. It is a lot of $$$ but  
> it's actually worth that much just because of the install base it's  
> got. Granted most people haven't paid for it, but still, it's a  
> captive audience.
> 
> I'm pretty stoked really, I think it'll make a nice addition to Sun's  
> Open Source collection.

I just hope it doesn't steal resources from Sun sponsered Postgres
development.