Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
In a previous post, we discussed the history of Oracle and MySQL. In this post we will focus on Oracle's relationship with its new star, Java.
History
Oracle made its first big move into the Java space in 2001 when it acquired a non-exclusive license for the source code of Sweden-based IronFlare ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Recently, after a failed bid by IBM, Sun announced that they will be selling the company to Oracle for $7.4B. At Deft Labs, we saw the writing on the wall for this deal in January of 2008. This post examines the historical relationship between Oracle and MySQL and looks at ...
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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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