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B2B Articles - Apr 29, 2009 3:59:18 PM - By Ironpaper

Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems

Oracle, owner of the database by the same name, buys Sun Microsystems, owner of the very popular free license database MySQL. Oracle paid 7.4 billion for Sun in a bid that surprised the industry. This deal followed right after the failed talks between Sun and IBM.