[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Nadine Miller wrote:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:15:03PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> What, on god's green earth, is the multiple that they valued the  
>>> MySQL
>>> organization? 100 times annual revenue? 200 times? Sun's market  
>>> cap is just
>>> over $12 BN, is MySQL really worth 1/12th of Sun?
>>
>> "keeping Oracle from buying MySQL" is worth $1BN.
>>
>
> And gives Sun a backup position (and possibly even a lever) since  
> Oracle
> has been threatening to dump Oracle on Solaris for a while.  (If you
> question the latter, why else crow about Linux being Oracle's primary
> development platform?)

Interesting thing though: Oracle owns the file format used by MySQL.   
They bought innova or whatever it is called some time back.


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