Video Interviews with Sun's James Gosling, MySQL's Monty Widenius and others on Sun's MySQL acquisition

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 17, 2008 10:37 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
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This morning Sun Microsystems announced that it was purchasing MySQL AB for $1 billion, $800 million of which is supposed to be paid in cash. This is a huge deal in the open source community. Two minutes after I heard the news, I begged an invitation to the "no press" MySQL company meeting at which the announcement had been made, drove two hours to Orlando, and sat down for lunch with Sun vice president (and Java creator) James Gosling and MySQL AB cofounder David Axmark.

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