RE: [Phpwm] Sun buys MySQL for £500m

[Phil Beynon]

Huh?
I didnt text you or actually anyone about it?

Everyone said Sun buying Cobalt Systems was a fantastic idea - except they
never managed to intergrate them into their corporate ways and 2 years later
the whole thing was dead in the water.


Phil

> Scarily, I had an SMS at the same time I received this email.
>
> So what does this mean....? more support, more work for us, or
> more work for the guys at opensolaris?
>
> My initial thought is surely this has to be a step in the right
> direction?... discuss..
>
> > From: phil at infolinkelectronics.co.uk
> > To: phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:58:56 +0000
> > Subject: [Phpwm] Sun buys MySQL for £500m
> >
> > "Sun has acquired the open source database MySQL for £500m, in a bid to
> > establish a foothold in the database market and offer users open source
> > database tools to compliment its growing family of open source
> products."
> >
> >
> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/16/228949/sun-buys-
> mysql-for-
> > 500m.htm
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phil Beynon
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