Posted by d3bruts1d on January 16, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Sun Microsystems isn’t the only one spending money to purchase another company today. Oracle is buying BEA Systems Inc. for $8.5 Billion.
Source: AP
Posted by d3bruts1d on January 16, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Sun Microsystems will spend $1,000,000,000 ($1 Billion) to buy the open source database MySQL. According to C|Net, the deal includes about $800 Million in cash to purchase the privately held stock, and about $200 Million to pick up the remaining options. As C|Net points out, there is a fairly interesting twist to all of this. Sun Microsystems has partenered with Oracle and sells support services for PostgreSQL. Both Oracle and PostgreSQL are in direct competition with MySQL. Sun says that they will continue the relationship they have with both companies.
Posted by d3bruts1d on July 23, 2004 at 5:41 pm
Well, I’m finally getting some room to play with things at work now that Joe (my old boss) is out of the picture. An old “Hazard Screening Form” that I had originally created is in need of some work. I’ve managed to talk my new boss into letting me give it a try in PHP. First thing is to figure out how to get PHP installed on Oracle’s Apache Server… something they don’t support. :/
