“Sun Microsystems has announced the completion of its
acquisition of MySQL–‘the most important acquisition in the modern
software industry’ according to Jonathan Schwartz–and that MySQL’s
open source database is now backed by Sun’s ‘17,000-strong global
sales and services organization and its extensive international
network of authorized distribution channels.’“A little less loudly the company has also confirmed that it has
tinkered with the terms of MySQL Enterprise Unlimited, the
site-wide agreement introduced in January last year that provided
unlimited use of MySQL Enterprise for $40,000, the same price
Oracle charges per CPU for Oracle Database Enterprise
Edition….”