[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Jan 16 23:25:18 CST 2008


On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:15:03PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> What, on god's green earth, is the multiple that they valued the MySQL 
> organization? 100 times annual revenue? 200 times? Sun's market cap is just 
> over $12 BN, is MySQL really worth 1/12th of Sun? 

"keeping Oracle from buying MySQL" is worth $1BN.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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