Re: Sun buys MySQL

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sun buys MySQL
Date: 2008-01-17 20:39:06
Message-ID: 1200602346.4255.283.camel@ebony.site
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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:35 -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> And an important reason behind paying $1B

Insightful stuff. $1B is too round a number to be a real valuation,
IMHO. I'm not really certain they would do that.

Certainly Sun would be foolish to pay $1B for MySQL when Oracle and IBM
had already paid so much less for profitable and strategic pieces of the
MySQL cake.

Shame they didn't pay $999 million. We could go a long way with $1m. :-)

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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