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I guess this is one of the more exciting recent news – Sun bought MySQL! That’s mind-boggling smart – especially given Sun’s track record for their commitment to Open Source movement. The past decade has seen a number of high profile acquisition, most of which is to complete their own portfolio, but I saw this as a little more special than a typical Google – Youtube / Ebay – Skype deal is the sense that there’s some camaraderie spirit behind all these.

Here’s the announcement / some post acquisition interviews with MySQL founders, Michael “Monty” Widenius and David Axmark.

And so the IT industry continue its decade long consolidation, and memories of a thousand flowers blooming during the dot com era floats further and further away quietly. When will the next time we see the boom spirit again?

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