Sun acquires MySQL; Oracle buys BEA

Special News Alert NetworkWorld.com | Netflash Daily News| Update Your Profile SPOTLIGHT STORY Sun to acquire MySQL for $1 billion Sun will pay $1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world. Read full story Oracle to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for about $8.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal comes just three months after the middleware vendor turned down an earlier offer of $6.7 billion. Read full story MORE STORIES RELATED NEWS: Sun to dangle prize money over open-source efforts, 12/04/07 Sun Wednesday will release details of a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts, according to a post by Sun's open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his corporate blog. Open source and the corporate elephant, 12/12/2007 More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent ... Oracle calls BEA's price 'impossibly high', 10/26/07 Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it "impossibly high" for Oracle or any other company to pay. Oracle offers $6.7 billion to buy BEA Systems, 10/12/2007 Oracle Friday announced that it has offered to buy middleware vendor BEA Systems for $17 per share in cash. . . Oracle said it had written to BEA's ... 01/16/08 TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: Eight hot technologies for 2008 Microsoft's response to Xbox's wireless signal Young IT workers disillusioned How much do big-name CIOs make? Trojan intercepts online banking information Web sites rigged with advanced hacking attack A new Outlook (file) Apple iPhone doomed to failure Not buying Microsoft's MediaCart IBM retains lead among patent winners MOST E-MAILED STORY: The IT department is dead, author argues   To continue receiving NetworkWorld's Special News Alert newsletter, please add @nwfnews.com to your white list. COMPLIMENTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE As a NW newsletter subscriber you are eligible to receive 50 issues of Network World Magazine, in print or electronic format, free of charge. Sign up for your subscription today: Apply here. International subscribers,click here.   SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. Terms of Service/Privacy Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2008