Sun to Buy MySQL for $1 Billion

January 16, 2008 By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to buy open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, beefing up the server maker's database offerings with a company whose technology is used by some of the world's biggest Web sites.



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