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SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:37 am
by infolock

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:50 am
by Kieran Huggins
But MySQL is free.....

Anyone wanna buy Linux? I'll sell it really cheap!

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:14 am
by Jenk
That's not quite how it works Kieran.. Sun own OpenOffice, too.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/0 ... uys_mysql/

For more news.

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:43 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Sun have agreed to buy MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL.

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:14 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Yet no one points out they spent $1 Billion USD to buy it. How about that for open source?

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:20 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I was being facetious... but it turns out that's just Latin for "jerkstore". Sorry :-)

I think it's a great move - Sun has a history of supporting OSS. I only hope they can recover their investment!

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:31 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Kieran Huggins wrote:But MySQL is free.....

Anyone wanna buy Linux? I'll sell it really cheap!
Dude, if it comes with a penguin, I'm in!

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:36 pm
by Luke
sarcasm detectors were turned down or off in this thread.

Re: SUN BOUGHT OUT MYSQL!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:39 pm
by RobertGonzalez
They are probaly with the "bbCode on by default" settings somewhere.