Re: sun acquires MySQL

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On Jan 16, 2008 5:39 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Parker escribió:
> > On Jan 16, 2008 2:45 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Manuel Arostegui Ramirez escribió:
> >>> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:32:08 Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
> >>>> Looking at the initial reports it appears that the Sun's acquisition
> >>>> might do good to MySQL as Sun would be taking the product to huge
> >>>> corporations.
> >>>>
> >>> Is it not in huge corporations already?
> >> Which one?
> >>
> >
> > FAST may not be huge, but Microsoft seem to think they're worth a
> > penny or two.  MySQL is used in their search engine product.
>
> What is FAST?
>

Its an enterprise search engine.  Microsoft recently bid $1.2B for it.

http://www.fastsearch.com/
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/141181/microsoft_bids_12_bln_for_fast.html

> Sorry for my ignorance on this.
>
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