Sunhas acquired the open source
databaseMySQLfor £500m, in a bid to establish
a foothold in the database market and offer users open source
database tools to compliment its growing family of open source
products.
Sun said the integration of MySQL into Sun would greatly extend
the commercial appeal of MySQL's product and improve its value to
users with the addition of Sun's global services organisation.
MySQL will also gain new distribution through Sun's channels
including its OEM relationships with Intel, IBM and Dell, Sun
added
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president at Sun Microsystems said:
"MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across
the web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network
innovation. And, most importantly, this announcement boosts our
investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the
internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a
competitive weapon."
Users of MySQL include Facebook,
Google and Nokia. MySQL is also a major component of
LAMP
- the software platform comprising of Linux, Apache, MySQL and
PHP/Perl, which experts regard as the foundation of the internet.
Sun said it would optimise LAMP on Linux and Microsoft Windows
along with OpenSolaris and MAC OS X. Sun said MySQL, OpenSolaris
and GlassFish, together with Sun's Java platform and NetBeans
communities, would create a powerful Web application platform for
users.