Here’s the news that everyone involved in IT should know by now – Sun Microsystems bought Mysql AB!
For those who doesn’t know, MySQL AB is the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.
From the blog of Sun Microsystems’ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz‘ :
We announced big news today – our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we’re acquiring MySQL AB.
… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP.
With this ground breaking event, I’m sure there will be some far out development in Mysql/Sun in the near future.
One Response to “Sun Microsystems Owns Mysql AB”
on January 20th, 2008 at 5:36 am #
[...] (Chief Executive Officer and President of Sun Microsystems) announced yesterday from his blog that Sun has acquired Mysql AB, the company behind the widest used open sourced database platform, [...]