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If IBM Buys Sun What Happens to MySQL (and Sun’s other projects)?

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There’s been alot of discussion about IBM being in talks with Sun Microsystems about a $6.1 billion acquisition. Initially Sun’s stock (ticker: JAVA) shot up significantly while IBM’s stock (ticker: IBM) initially dropped a few points before recovering to only a small loss. While this may or may not be good for each company, I started to wonder what would happen to some of the projects that Sun manages, specifically MySQL but also ZFS, OpenSolaris and others.

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