Subscribe to Optaros RSS feedBig news on the MySQL front. While many had predicted MySQL would have an IPO in 2008, but it was announced today that Sun will acquire them for approximately one billion: 800 million in cash and 200 million in options.
Kaj Arno, VP of Community for MySQL AB (the company behind the project), said on his blog:
Of all candidates to acquire MySQL, I cannot imagine a more ideal buyer from a founder perspective than Sun Microsystems. If I know our founders right (and I’ve known Monty since the late 1970s and David since the 1980s), they will use this deal as an opportunity to accomplish even more within the space of Open Source and Sun Microsystems.
Good news for the folks who put the 'm' in LAMP, and better news for the overall ecosystem than an Oracle deal would have been.