[geeks] Sun to acquire MySQL

[Nadine Miller]

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.
> 

And gives Sun a backup position (and possibly even a lever) since Oracle 
has been threatening to dump Oracle on Solaris for a while.  (If you 
question the latter, why else crow about Linux being Oracle's primary 
development platform?)

=Nadine=