Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Sun acquires MySQL; Oracle buys BEA

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Sun to acquire MySQL for $1 billion
Sun will pay $1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world. Read full story

Oracle to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion
Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for about $8.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal comes just three months after the middleware vendor turned down an earlier offer of $6.7 billion. Read full story

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Open source and the corporate elephant, 12/12/2007 More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent ...

Oracle calls BEA's price 'impossibly high', 10/26/07 Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it "impossibly high" for Oracle or any other company to pay.

Oracle offers $6.7 billion to buy BEA Systems, 10/12/2007 Oracle Friday announced that it has offered to buy middleware vendor BEA Systems for $17 per share in cash. . . Oracle said it had written to BEA's ...


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