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$1,000,000,000 acquisition

Sun’s purchase of MySQL for a cool $1 billion is all the buzz today and rightfully so. I think this news goes to show the power, visibility and growth in adoption of open source. And in this particular case MySQL. As enterprises continually seek competitive advantages they find their way to open source solutions. Sun [...]

Sun open sources Java

Kudos to Jonathon Schwarz, Rich Green, Bill Joy, and the rest of the Sun team for more than just following up on a promise but making a very difficult business decision to release some of their crown jewels. I suspect that the resultant code base will be enhanced with new features and that more developers [...]

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