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Sun Microsystems elbowed into the enterprise database market Wednesday with the announcement of a proposed $1 billion acquisition of MySQL, an open-source database software company. The deal, which Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz calls the “most important acquisition in the company’s history,” makes Sun one of the first major public companies to offer open-source software [...]

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