Sun Microsystems | Jonathan’s Blog | Helping Dolphins Fly | 1/16/08 | …via WordPress Planet via Matt Mullenweg
“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.”
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?
- This website utilizes MYSQL heavily
- The only way to keep thousands of locations organized is via a database
- 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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