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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Sun's folly MySQL is thorn in Oracle deal

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- When Sun Microsystems Inc. agreed in January 2008 to pay nearly $1 billion for the open source database company, MySQL, the only winners in that boondoggle were the vulture capitalists, founders and other investors who... Full Article at MarketWatch

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  1. They [the EC] see a problem, and I understand the questions, and the questions are good to ask, but I think also the answers are clear: Sure, MySQL as part of Oracle would be in a different constellation to some degree, but any company will have multiple scenarios going forward
    – Marten Mickos SOURCE: eWeek 4 weeks ago
  2. The MySQL business is a very strong business, with enormous potential in the next 10 to 20 years. It can do fantastically well within Sun, it can do fantastically well within Oracle. It can do fantastically well on its own as well. I'm not speculating on what the best scenario is. I'm just saying that i...
    – Marten Mickos SOURCE: eWeek 4 weeks ago
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