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From the News Desk
Thursday, 28. February 2008
Sun Completes MySQL Acquistion, Takes Control of Database Market
Sun Microsystems has recently closed its acquisition of open source database developer MySQL, and said the move will open new opportunities for solution providers to spread the Sun message. In addition, Sun also unveiled the availability of MySQL's complete portfolio of products and enterprise services backed by its 17,000 sales and services organization and its extensive international network of authorized distribution channels.
Sun announced just six weeks ago it would spend USD 1 billion, USD 800 million in cash and USD 200 million in assumed options, to purchase the open source database company. Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO, Sun, said that MySQL controls about 50 percent of the open source data base market, and counts as customers such companies as FaceBook, YouTube, and Nokia. The move will help Sun better compete with Microsoft, Oracle and IBM in the database market, which continues to be a lucrative market.
Sun is counting on MySQL's continued growth in the USD 15 billion-a-year database industry to fuel additional software sales out of the Sun portfolio, although analysts put MySQL's share of that at somewhere less than USD 100 million a year in revenue. Both company executives said that Linux, not Sun's Solaris, will remain MySQL's primary operating system. In fact, MySQL runs on Linux as its most popular platform, with Windows second, and Solaris coming in a distant third. Nevertheless, MySQL was developed on Solaris, said Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun.
With the close of the acquisition, MySQL forms the base of the new Database group at Sun, headed by Martin Mikos, senior vice president of that group and the founder of MySQL. The Database group is a part of Sun's software business unit under Richard Green.
Related Links
Link to Jonathan Schwartz's Blog
Sun announced just six weeks ago it would spend USD 1 billion, USD 800 million in cash and USD 200 million in assumed options, to purchase the open source database company. Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO, Sun, said that MySQL controls about 50 percent of the open source data base market, and counts as customers such companies as FaceBook, YouTube, and Nokia. The move will help Sun better compete with Microsoft, Oracle and IBM in the database market, which continues to be a lucrative market.
Sun is counting on MySQL's continued growth in the USD 15 billion-a-year database industry to fuel additional software sales out of the Sun portfolio, although analysts put MySQL's share of that at somewhere less than USD 100 million a year in revenue. Both company executives said that Linux, not Sun's Solaris, will remain MySQL's primary operating system. In fact, MySQL runs on Linux as its most popular platform, with Windows second, and Solaris coming in a distant third. Nevertheless, MySQL was developed on Solaris, said Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun.
With the close of the acquisition, MySQL forms the base of the new Database group at Sun, headed by Martin Mikos, senior vice president of that group and the founder of MySQL. The Database group is a part of Sun's software business unit under Richard Green.
Related Links
Link to Jonathan Schwartz's Blog
