Posted by peter |

Kaj wrote me email yesterday asking if I was sleeping for a whole week or may be dead because I’m probably the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal.

In fact I was just on extremely busy travel schedule last week, so I’m just finding a bit of time now to comment on it.

First it is very interesting for me MySQL choose to be bought out by Sun rather than going IPO even though as I understand majority of the steps required for IPO already were done. This could be related to current market conditions or may be 1B price tag was at higher end what was expected from IPO, It also could be getting mostly cash payment now was attractive.
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