[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:52:43PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> I just hope it doesn't steal resources from Sun sponsered Postgres
>> development.
>
> Did that ever really go anywhere?


Apparently they did some nice DTrace integration.  The real question  
is whether it got them support contracts, which I assume it did.

Assume that they sell an additional $300 Million a year of hardware  
due to MySQL acquisition, and that they sell $50 Million a year of  
support contracts, they will pay off the acquisition in about 8 years  
assuming 100M profit from hardware and 25 M profit from support.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net