D@J » mysql http://www.davidandrewjohnson.com David Andrew Johnson Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:35:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC3 Oracle To Buy Sun (and MySQL) For $7.4 Billion. http://www.davidandrewjohnson.com/2009/04/oracle-to-buy-sun-and-mysql-for-74-billion/ http://www.davidandrewjohnson.com/2009/04/oracle-to-buy-sun-and-mysql-for-74-billion/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:53:06 +0000 David Johnson http://www.davidandrewjohnson.com/?p=737 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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