Acquisitions — Sun buys MySQL and Oracle is set to buy BEA

These are neither post-Christmas sales nor an April Fools’ joke. Sun has just announced that it bought MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL. The price tag came to a billion dollars. As Jonthan Schwarz put it, “… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP”. With this deal, Sun now has a complete open-source ecosystem with an operating system, a database and a platform (Java). And as if that weren’t enough news, Oracle will probably buy BEA for eight and a half billion dollars.

Related links

• MySQL blog — Sun acquires MySQL
• Slashdot — Sun Buys MySQL
• BEA gets the best of Oracle