Sun Micro says to buy MySQL for $1 billion

By Tom | January 16, 2008

Sun Microsystems said on Wednesday that it will pay $1 billion to buy MySQL, the provider of a popular open-source database. Sun will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL’s stock and take on about $200 million worth of options.

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