[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Mark]

On 17 Jan 2008, at 05:25, Bill Bradford wrote:

> 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.

Bingo. Nail, hit it, on the head.

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