In what has turned out to be a great day in Tech (the best day in 2008 so far if you ask me,) Sun Microsystems announced a deal to buy MySQL for $1 Billion USD. This bolsters SUN's position within the open-source world by bringing an open-source database application into a product portfolio that already includes the popular open-source JAVA platform. This is a great investment for SUN since MySQL drives some of the world's largest websites.
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You can read more about MySQL at: http://www.mysql.com
SUN Microsystems buys Open-Source Database MySQL for $1 Billion
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