“We announced big news today – our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we’re acquiring MySQL AB.”

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“But the biggest news of the day is… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you’re an industry insider, you’ll know what that means – we’re acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.”

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So… why should any of this matter to me, especially as a location scout, a profession that would likely appear, at least at first glance, considerably removed from the inner workings of internet database systems?

1. This website utilizes MYSQL heavily
2. The only way to keep thousands of locations organized is via a database
3. A company pumping a billion bux into anything is a BIG deal!

So is Sun acquiring MYSQL a good thing?

Matt Seems to think so, and if he does, then so do I

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