Archive for January, 2008

Sun Gazes Into The Oracle

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Today Sun announced that they would acquire MySQL for one billlllion dollars. This is a surprising exit for the extremely popular open source database. It wasn't too long ago that Red Hat acquired JBoss for $350M. It appears as if MySQL wasn't able to fully monetize the consulting and enterprise ...

Microsoft and Limelight

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

There have been several bloggers talking about Microsoft purchasing Limelight. The real question is why would they do this? Limelight is a public company with an EPS of -0.53. Perhaps Microsoft believes they can streamline operations and turn the company around. This sounds like a pipe dream to us. Another ...