Sun Microsystems has agreed to buy MySQL AB, the developers of the popular open source MySQL database, for "approximately" $1-billion.
Both MySQL AB and Sun issued press releases on Thursday announcing the surprise deal.
In barely penetrable public relations gobbledegook, Sun's Jonathan Schwartz explains the deal:
For those that don't speak the lingo, Sun is buying MySQL for a huge (no, HUGE) sum of money and claiming that that it represents some sort of proof that Sun is pivotal to the Web 2.0 economy.
Let's just hope Sun doesn't mess this one up like they have done with so many of their other attempts to appear hip and cool. Anyone remember the company's various flirtations with Linux or the non-starter Cobalt Cube?