Sun Microsystems is making a play to boost its standing in the $15 billion database market. The company announced Wednesday a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, whose technologies are behind ...

Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, said that MySQL controls about 50 percent of the open source data base market, and counts as customers such companies as FaceBook ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) has agreed to acquire MySQL AB, a Sweden-based developer of an open-source database, for approximately $1 billion. The deal includes $800 million in cash and $200 ...

With Sun Microsystems’ $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL announced Wednesday, Sun gets ownership of a major player in the open source software industry while MySQL gets the ...

If you believe my long-time colleague John C. Dvorak, Sun purchasing open-source database power MySQL was “perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and ...

Mårten Mickos urges EU antitrust regulators to approve Oracle's Sun acquisition, arguing that delay hurts customers and that Oracle won't sink Sun's MySQL group. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...