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Why would a company like Sun Microsystems pay one billion dollars for a free and open source database?
Why would a company like Sun Microsystems pay one billion dollars for a free and open source database? How did they intend to make money?
8 months ago - 1 answers
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MySQL is the db of choice for most of the high traffic web sites and also any development done using the popular php-apache combine.So these companies have to register for support which might be a lucrative revenue generator.Also the DB could have been positioned to attract the low end businesses who could not afford the more expensive Oracle Db or the mainframes or Windows Servers.
by praveen
8 months ago
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