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Sun Microsystems Gobbles up MySQL

Sun has announced its acquisition of MySQL.

As IPcentral Academic Advisory Council member Professor Ronald Mann has argued, proliferation of FOSS firms will result in greater concentration in the technology sector. FOSS firms will either be integrated into traditional organizations, or aggregate with one another in order to compete against them. Even though FOSS markets have low barriers to entry, FOSS firms are challenged to stand-alone.

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