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The Seven Largest Open Source Deals Ever

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“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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