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January 17 th 2008 Comments Off on Sun Acquires MySQL
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Sun Acquires MySQL

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Yesterday, Larry Dignan blogged on ZDNet that “Sun acquires MySQL”. It’s fascinating that open source software could make its developer worth $1 billion US.

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