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A Baby Database's Chance to Grow Up? (BusinessWeek)

[Posted June 10, 2003 by cook]

BusinessWeek investigates the alliance between MySQL and SAP. "In this light, SAP's deal with MySQL is a natural. Under its terms, the German company will pass development of SAP DB to MySQL. The Swedish company then picks up commercial rights to SAP DB. Mickos plans to merge SAP DB's code with that of MySQL. And he hopes to incorporate heavy-duty computing features into MySQL's next release."

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Posted Jun 12, 2003 15:29 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

Too bad then that Oracle wants to buy them out...