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Sun to fork out US$1B for MySQL
News Sun Microsystems will pay US$1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open source database.
Tags: Acquisitions, Database management, Databases, Open source
MySQL hits US$50 million revenue, plans IPO
News Open-source database maker hopes going public will raise funds for acquisitions, CEO Marten Mickos says.
Tags: Databases, Open source
Balance lucre with liberty, open-sourcers told
News MySQL chief Marten Mickos outlines his views on making money off software that can be obtained for free.
Tags: Open source
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun
News Marten Mickos urges EU antitrust regulators to approve Oracle's Sun acquisition, arguing that delay hurts customers and that Oracle won't sink Sun's MySQL group.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Acquisitions, Regulations, Open Source, Database, Commission, European Commission, Business applications, MySQL ex-CEO
Former MySQL CEO Mickos joins Benchmark
News Open source database company's one-time chief executive is now entrepreneur in residence at a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Marten Mickos, Open Source, E-mail, MySQL, Benchmark Capital, entrepreneur, software, CEO, Business Strategies & Functions
Report: Oracle not yielding to EU with Sun buy
News Oracle is playing hardball with European regulators concerned about its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Tags: Mergers, Regulations, European Union, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., antitrust, Financial Times, Oracle Corp., Marten Mickos, proprietary software
Why is Asia not open to open source?
Blogs One of the main draws--and selling point--of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, acc...
Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers
News Sun launches bundled OpenSolaris in latest push for developer support.
Tags: Open source, Operating systems, Virtualization, Google Inc., Database, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, processor, Perl
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
News Sun's MySQL database unit has reversed on plans to release important backup features under a proprietary license, following criticism from the open source community.
Tags: Databases, Software engineering/development, Backup, Database, Open Source, GPL, software, co-founder, Marten Mickos, revenue
HP expands open-source support
News The company will certify and support mySQL database software and the JBoss application server on its hardware.
Zend seeks a sustainable open-source model
News Incoming CEO Harold Goldberg says he'll focus the PHP software company on big businesses and Web 2.0 start-ups.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Open source
Can open source win big business?
News Getting Fortune 500 companies to adopt open source would be a lot easier if open-source advocates put their business hats on, say executives of Sun and MySQL.
MySQL database to get high-end feature
News The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails.
Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL
Techguide Move reveals just how far the software giant is willing to go to adapt to the burgeoning open-source environment.
SAP inks open-source database deal
News The business application powerhouse plans to incorporate MySQL's open-source database software into some of its products, which should speed up development of the program.
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