Database Dilemmas
Butler Group Review Articles
Rob Hailstone - Published 05/03/2008
Sun Microsystems’ definitive agreement to acquire open source database vendor MySQL in a US$1billion deal seems like a lot of money for a company that has revenues in the region of US$50-60 million. MySQL certainly needed to generate additional funds in order to bring its products into the mainstream Database Management System (DBMS) market and to compete directly with Oracle and IBM.