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January 16, 2008 | Comments: (0)

MySQL and BEA acquisitions

As Zack reported, Sun is buying MySQL for ~$800M plus $200M in options. Interestingly, the MySQL acquisition represents 8% of Sun's current market cap (~$13 Bil). While I'm happy for the MySQL team, my views on Sun's OSS "strategy" are mixed at best. Let's hope Marten and team can help Sun realize that there is value in software...good software, not the stuff that was 5th in class, and remains so after open sourcing it.

Oracle also announced it will acquire BEA for $8.5 Bil, a higher price than Larry rejected a little while back. The deal also represents 8% of Oracle's current market cap (~$109 bil).

The software industry continues to consolidate. Next question...When will Oracle buy Sun? ;-)

PS: I should state: "The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions."

Posted by Savio Rodrigues on January 16, 2008 07:39 AM

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oracle isn't into hardware, and lest you forget Sun has a huge part of it that is hardware + solaris.

It makes far more sense for google to acquire Sun. That would be something!

Posted by: pete at January 16, 2008 08:20 AM

Hey Savio,

something that crossed my mind was noticing how both BEA and MySQL were founded in 1995. Now BEA is getting more than 8 times the valuation of MySQL. Apples and oranges, I know, but still worth a casual thought when you think about proprietary vs. OSS models. Just don't stop the celebration, though.

Posted by: Gianugo Rabellino at January 16, 2008 12:54 PM

The deal is certainly going to help MySQL gaining stronger ground in enterprise level deployment.

Posted by: dotservant.com website hosting at January 16, 2008 08:54 PM

"not the stuff that was 5th in class"

I can't think what you are referring to by this. Surely not OpenSolaris or Glassfish?

I'm no Sun groupie but I do expect people to back up their claims, or least state what the claim really is. Your vague claim does you a disservice.

-james.

Posted by: James Stansell at January 17, 2008 06:38 AM

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