Oracle buys SUN reduces competition in the database market by removing the threat of MySQL (2009-4-21)
Oracle Corp.’s US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one — MySQL.
Oracle reaped $8.34 billion from database sales in 2007, giving it 37.6% of the $22.2 billion global market, according to IDC. The 2008 figures are not yet available, [...]