The headline says it all

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL. Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration.

After reading about the news actually first on SitePoint’s Tech Times, i visited MySQL.com, which was happily displaying its latest press release . So the news is surely confirmed , what remains to be seen , what are SUN’s plans to do with their new acquisition . MySQL being one of the key components of the LAMP platform , will surely continue remaining as open source but it would be surely interesting to track how SUN help towards the betterment of the 10 million strong community of users.

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