Oracle buy Sun for $7.4

After less than a month after IBM walked away from a $7 billion merger with SUN Microsystems, Oracle have now entered an agreement to merge with them for $7.4 billion subject to approval from the Sun stockholders. Until the deal closes each company will continue to operate independently, and is business as usual.

The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris.

Therefore I hope that good things continue for MySQL considering when Siebel was acquired by Oracle it seemed to go downhill.