Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/companies/21sun.html

by pierrefar • 17 years ago

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dotcoma• 17 years ago

this sucks! My_sql in the hands of Oracle!!

zcrar702• 17 years ago

MySQL not My_sql. As is pointed out on the other thread, Oracle already own InnoDB, which is used by MySQL as its transactional storage engine, so there's actually a synergy of sorts there.

swombat2• 17 years ago

dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=570502

briansmith• 17 years ago

I found this one pretty useful because it states that Oracle is expecting to get 3.5 billion dollars in extra profit just in the next two years from this deal. That is 40% of the purchase price. That sounds like a pretty good deal for Oracle.

muhamm3• 17 years ago

It's not a duplicate. This is a New York Times article. The other one is Sun's bullshit press release.

swombat2• 17 years ago

So post it as a comment on the other thread. No need to disperse the discussion amongst half a dozen reputable news sources that all cover the same major event (not to mention pollute the front page with multiple repetitions of the same story).

adrianwaj• 17 years ago

Oracle might be buying it to keep it out of IBM's hands, they - IBM - could've (not) killed but perhaps damaged two birds (Sun, Oracle) with the one stone in a Sun buy.

Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B

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