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SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today’s announcement reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

This is definitely good news. Sun is a huge support of the Open Source movement and with their backing, they can make MySQL an even more powerful player in the database market. I have been using MySQL for years now and its my prefered datbase when setting up any websites. I cant wait to see what they do with MySQL. Heres a link to the full press release. Enjoy!

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml