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Sun Buys MySQL for $1B and Wall Street Mourns

Original Post authored by Stacey Higginbotham on 1/16/2008 on GigaOM
Sun Microsystems said today it would pay $1 billion to buy privately held open-source database maker MySQL, a move that strengthens Sunメs ability to offer an alternative to proprietary software.


The Amazing Rise of WebKit Mobile

Original Post authored by Om Malik on 11/13/2007 on GigaOM

The Google Android SDK, released yesterday, confirmed what had been long been rumored: Google's mobile platform uses WebKit, an open source browser engine . We have been working on our mobile implementation of WebKit for quite some time, ...