Sun is buying MySQL for a billion dollar. One billion dollar seems to be a lot of money. However, I think it is a great move. MySQL is the most widely used open source database. Most of web 2.0 companies use it including the company I work for. By buying MySQL, Sun instantly get a huge customer base which it can start to sell services and hardware. Sun stock price has been beaten down by wall street. Sun has 5 billion in cash reserve and has been profitable the last couple quarters since Dotcom crash. Sun is now one of the biggest open source company around. I think there is a lot of upside on Sun. It seems that very soon people will think Sun is a cool company again.
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