Sun agrees to pay $1b for MySQL

Sun Microsystems Inc., the third-largest maker of server computers, agreed to buy software company MySQL AB for about $1 billion.

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database, over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history, It is mainly used by web sites and it is used also by Google Inc.

What is the interest of Sun to buy MySQL, well Sun unlike IBM/Oracle/Microsoft doesn't have it's own Database, Sun has its own Application Server and this would create a more complete product solution which would be supply by Sun.
The profits for Sun will come from the support for MySQL installations.

The question now when Sun would be bought and by who?

Oracle to Pay $8.5 Billion for BEA

Another acquestion by Oracle, this company just swallow all the other competitions.

The big question what is now what would be now with BEA WebLogic application server? Since Oracle has it's own application server 10g, would they stop to develop it? My guess is that they will continue to support old 10g customers and would offer new customer BEA WebLogic application server.

Oracle profits are just continue to grow and this cause Oralce competitiors to afraid, Now that there are now only two major J2EE Application - IBM and Oracle it would be intrest to see what would be the next acqusiton