Sun Completes Acquisition of MySQL
Sun recently finalized the acquisition of MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of the world's most popular and one of the fastest growing open source databases. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market and reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and the largest commercial open source contributor. Products are available now, backed by Sun's global service and support.
Sun's acquisition of MySQL opens the door to a much expanded market opportunity for Sun's channel, ISV and OEM partners. By acquiring MySQL, Sun more than doubles our customer list and multiplies our opportunities. MySQL, the defacto standard for online databases with thousands of new customers and millions of new developers and users, is now backed by Sun's $14 billion portfolio of services, support expertise, energy efficient products, and technologies that power the network economy, as well as large partner and developer communities.
As a result of this acquisition, Sun partners gain fast, easy access to develop and sell their products and services to a very active, high volume community with a passion for scale and disruptive innovation that is 11million strong and rapidly growing.
So what's in it for our partners?