Sun's Next Two Open Source Moves

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"Yes, Sun is acquiring MySQL for $1 billion. But Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz isn't done modernizing his company. Not by a long shot. The VAR Guy isn't ready to predict which company Sun will acquire next, but he has noticed Schwartz getting pretty darn cozy with two fast-growing open source businesses.

"Indeed, Schwartz is scheduled to be a keynote presenter February 6 at SugarCON, a customer and developer conference hosted by SugarCRM. Separately, Sun apparently is the top sponsor for UbuntuLive, a July 2008 conference for organizations running or deploying Canonical's Ubuntu Linux..."

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