Archive for January, 2008
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 ...
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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 ...
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