Sun Acquires MySQL - Most popular Open Source Database

I just surprised that people should have now expert with Solaris 10 and MySQL because Sun acquired Mysql. Now, it can be one more combinations with SAMP/AMPS as well as LAMP.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has acquired MySQL AB, the maker of the MySQL database management system, a move that Sun hopes will make it a more substantial player in the database market. But as these forces join, it also raises questions for IT shops juggling diverse hardware, database and operating system platforms.

The acquisition is expected to cost the Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun about $1 billion to enter the $15 billion database market. Meanwhile, MySQL can get the support and development muscle that comes from a relationship with a major IT hardware and software vendor.

With the acquisition, Sun has gotten a foot in the door of the LAMP stack, which includes Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, and is the "preferred architecture componentry for PHP Web applications, Sun and MySQL can now both benefit from the ability to sell the database management system to Sun's enterprise customers, who may have been tentative about going with MySQL when it was on its own.