[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Some people can’t believe Sun actually spent a billion dollars
for MySQL; I can’t believe they got such a great deal.“If you believe my long-time colleague John C. Dvorak, Sun
purchasing open-source database power MySQL was ‘perhaps the worst
single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers
and acquisitions.’ Nonsense! This is Sun’s best deal ever…”
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