Sun makes MySQL theirs

SIN MICROSYSTEMS said it is buying MySQL AB, an open sorcerer, for around about a billion dollars.

Sun says such industry luminaries as Facebook, Google, Nokia,and China Mobile all rely on MySQL. And it reckons "synergies" and things will flow like wine from a broken bottle.

It also reckons Sun will "greatly extend the commercial appeal of MySQL's offerings and improve its value proposition". That remains to be seen, of course.

Bloke with silly hair, Jonathan Schwartz, said:"MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation."

"This announcement boosts our investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the Internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a competitive weapon," he blathered.

Should you want to know more, you'll be able to hear lots of words like " solutions" and "granularity" and "synergy" here sooner or later. µ