The Seven Largest Open Source Deals Ever

"To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It's the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a series of large open source acquisitions...

"In light of the MySQL acquisition, we decided to find the largest deals in open source history. A lot of open source companies have been bought in the last couple of years, with hundreds of millions of dollars trading places in the process.

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