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Oracle To Buy Sun (and MySQL) For $7.4 Billion.
eeeeek – shudders at the prospect of mysql in the hands of the oracle licensing people - note to self. must start working with postgres more.
Updated: Less than a month after it walked away form a $7 billion deal with IBM, Sun Microsystems says that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with database and enterprise software giant, Oracle.. Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. The transaction has been approved by Sun’s board of directors.
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