• Jan222008

    Sun to buy MySQL

    Posted by Gene in Software

    So Sun is going to buy has acquired MySQL, this only looks like a good thing to me, though I do worry that eventually we’ll be paying hefty fees for licenses to MySQL but somehow I sort of trust Sun’s Open Source spirit. Overall it seems like the community is open and happy about the news.

    Mark de Visser, Chief Marketing Officer of Zend Technologies released this statement on behalf of Zend.

    “This is a very good deal for the open source and web economies. It confirms the success of the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack as a web platform. The valuation of the transaction reflects the broad enterprise adoption of this platform, which is also driving our strong revenue growth at Zend Technologies. We have a long history of working closely with MySQL and are encouraged to see the senior roles the MySQL executives will play at Sun. It gives us confidence that we will be able to work with Sun, like we did with MySQL, to progress the innovation and open standards that power the adoption of the LAMP stack.”

    See Also: Cnet, WSJ, Computer World, Info World.

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