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
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Oracle Buys A Company, Too
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008MySQL Sold For $1 Billion
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Sun 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.
Google And Sun Microsystems Collaborative Effort
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005Google and Sun Microsystems will be holding a press conference (and live webcast) today at 10:30 AM PT (1:30 PM ET) to discuss a new collaborative effort between the two companies.
More information will be made available here.
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Anyone want to speculate what this will be about? Java Technology? OpenOffice.org? Star Office? Google Office? Open Solaris? Or is it about something completely different?