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Showing posts with label acquisition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acquisition. Show all posts
August 17, 2009
EveryBlock Acquired by MSNBC
News today from EveryBlock via Adrian Holovaty that the founders have agreed to let MSNBC acquire their company. Happily Adrian is on record already as expecting a completely unchanged relationship with Django and Python, pointing out that MSNBC is only half-owned by Microsoft.
January 17, 2008
Sun Buys MySQL for $1 billion
Sun just raised their bet on open source by buying MySQL AB, the company that makes the most popular open source relational database in the world. They paid $800m in cash and assumed $200m in options to do so, even though MySQL distribute most of their software as open source.
MySQL was the first to aggressively adopt the so-called dual licensing model, which allowed products to be acquired as open source or bought with a support contract, and this has been popular with those who don't like the prospect of having to fall back on their own support resources.
Sun seem to be betting that closer ties with a popular database product will bring them more server and suppoer business, and who's to say they're wrong?
MySQL was the first to aggressively adopt the so-called dual licensing model, which allowed products to be acquired as open source or bought with a support contract, and this has been popular with those who don't like the prospect of having to fall back on their own support resources.
Sun seem to be betting that closer ties with a popular database product will bring them more server and suppoer business, and who's to say they're wrong?
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