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Sun is acquiring MySQL for $ 1 billion

Hot day for acquisitions! BEA finally acquired by Oracle and now Sun put $ 1 billion on the table to catch the Swedish company MySQL and its thousands of customers.
What could be the consequences for BI market?
Nothing direct I think. But on a middle term basis we can imagine that this announcement is seen as a signal for a new step in vendors consolidation. MySQL is not really used in BI applications. Large customers don’t really trust yet in an open source database to store terabytes of strategic data from their corporate data warehouse. But with the cover of a trusted brand like Sun bringing a partner network, large support organization, and strong local presence in many countries… things could change. And if MySQL is seen as a new competitor in the data wrehousing area, I am sure that other vendors including Pentaho or Talend will revise their strategy and search for their next step.

  Posted by pnieuwbourg on January 16, 2008 9:14 AM |

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