[ale] Oracle to buy Sun now that IBM has dropped out

[Kenneth Ratliff]

Oracle is saying that they'll cut any software packages they don't  
want back into the Open Source world to either prosper or die as it  
will.

On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Tim Watts wrote:

> Hmm. So if Oracle owns Sun owns MySQL what might be MySQL's fate?
>
>
> On Monday 20 April 2009 1:00:37 pm Jeff Lightner wrote:
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_bi_ge/oracle_sun;_ylt=Allhgn6y
>> Ez3ELuctxfbZMflI2ocA
>>
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