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Open Source Groups Upbeat, Cautious on Sun-MySQL

Jan 17, 2008
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[From internetnews.com]

Will Sun’s acquisition of MySQL darken LAMP?

Despite generally positive reviews from the open source community, that remains one concern as Sun moves ahead with its its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL.

As part of the deal, Sun has made much of the fact that it is acquiring the “M” part of the critical LAMP — Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP — Web stack.

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