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		drawkbox on July 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems Yes but they didn't build it. They bought it. Maybe to sweeten the deal for a buyer. MySql might not have sold to Oracle directly?

jacquesm on July 17, 2009 [–]

Correction, Sun might not have sold to Oracle directly if they didn't have MySQL on board...

Like this Oracle gets a very large number of extra contacts in the corporate database world.

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