Sun is buying the ‘M’ in the LAMP* stack.

Not surprising when you consider the history Sun has with OpenOffice, JAVA, NetBeans, and other Open Source communities. Sun grew largely with the growth of the web. Though other companies have struggled, post-bubble, Sun has returned to profitability over the last four consecutive quarters. My reaction, along with much of the net, believes this is a good fit for both organizations.

Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assume approximately $200 million in options. The transaction is expected to close in late Q3 or early Q4 of Sun’s fiscal 2008.

We support terabytes of MySQL databases on Sun Microsystems SPARC hardware running Solaris.

* Linux Apache MySQL Perl (LAMP)

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