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Canadian MySQL Users Sceptical of Sun Takeover

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 17, 2008

“Canadian IT professionals sounded dubious about the future of
open source database firm MySQL following its surprise US$1-billion
acquisition Wednesday by Sun Microsystems.

“Executives from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun said they will
move quickly to integrate the 400 employees of MySQL–which is
based in Sweden but has operations in more than 25 countries–into
its software, sales and service organizations…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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