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Sun could quell database hunger with Unify buy

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Feb 8, 2005

Sun Microsystems last week tossed the word “database” in front of numerous financial analysts and triggered a flood of speculation.

During Sun’s analyst conference, the company hinted that it might be looking to acquire and then possibly open source a database. This move would round out its enterprise software portfolio, helping it compete against the likes of IBM and Microsoft. But what database would Sun buy? And how would this software stack up against similar code from Oracle or open source products such as MySQL and Postgres?

The article continues at

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/08/sun_unify_buy/

DatabaseJournal.com Staff

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