Sun makes the M in LAMP stand for Money
January 16th, 2008 (12:00pm) Bob Walsh 3 Comments
In a move designed to make MySQL enterprise friendly, give prospective IT hardware buyers more reasons to consider Sun and further fuel Microsoft’s Open Source heartburn, Sun announced today it is acquiring MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and debt.
“We’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP,” said Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz as he announced the deal to the public at his blog this morning. Schwartz cited a main reason for the deal as the opportunity for a Fortune 500 vendor - Sun - to offer the kind of mission critical global support that up to now has given commercial vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft the edge.
