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Re: Sun buys MySQL
- From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
- To: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
- Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: Sun buys MySQL
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:39:06 +0000
- Message-id: <1200602346(dot)4255(dot)283(dot)camel(at)ebony(dot)site>
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:35 -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > And an important reason behind paying $1B Insightful stuff. $1B is too round a number to be a real valuation, IMHO. I'm not really certain they would do that. Certainly Sun would be foolish to pay $1B for MySQL when Oracle and IBM had already paid so much less for profitable and strategic pieces of the MySQL cake. Shame they didn't pay $999 million. We could go a long way with $1m. :-) -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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