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MySQL’s sales catching up with Red Hat’s | The Open Road - CNET News

January 29th, 2009

Perhaps Sun Microsystems’ valuation of MySQL wasn’t too far off. Sun acquired the open-source database leader in January 2008 for a whopping $1 billion, a sum that many rational people thought was way too high.

Perhaps they were wrong; $1 billion is beginning to look like a bargain.

MySQL’s sales catching up with Red Hat’s | The Open Road - CNET News

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