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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/16/sun_mysql_open_source/
Meet the world's premier open source vendor - Sun  Red Hat,
Dell, IBM and HP get SAMPed  By Ashlee Vance  Posted in Servers,
16th January 2008 23:43 GMT         Rather prophetic on the open
source part, no?   Extra, Extra!    Beef service         But
business is boring. Let's get to war.  The LAMP stack is all the
rage, and Sun appears to have found the cheapest way into buying
a letter - maybe two.  Sun could well have applied its billions
in cash toward grabbing Red Hat. (Let's say $5bn.) Buy why
bother?  First off, Sun would need to spend far more to acquire
Red Hat. Then, it's battling away with rivals IBM, HP and Dell
over the whole proposition, warring with open source zealots
afraid of Sun's stewardship and in fighting over Solaris vs.
Linux.  As we see it, Sun's only real motivation to buy Red Hat
would be to kill it off and pitch the open source Solaris as a
replacement, leaving the world with a pair of major server
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