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According to the New York Times and Bloomberg, IBM's purchase of Sun Microsystems is imminent. The official announcement and terms of the acquisition will most likely be made public on Monday, but a late in the day announcement hasn't been ruled out. It's estimated that the purchase will cost IBM nearly $7 billion.
There's been much speculation and discussion both here at OStatic and elsewhere about what this means for Sun and its open source projects.
OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite originally derived from Sun's corresponding StarOffice product, is out with the first public beta of version 3.0.
While the new features are not revolutionary, this is a solid release that's plenty good enough for many users to adapt as their primary office suite. There is definitely good news for Mac users.
In a move designed to make MySQL enterprise friendly, give prospective IT hardware buyers more reasons to consider Sun and further fuel Microsoft's Open Source heartburn, Sun announced today it is acquiring MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and debt.
