As Mark Hinkle has already noted, The 451 Group recently published a brief on open source mergers and acquisitions, written by open source research director, Raven Zachary, and financial analyst Brenon Daly. It is a happy coincidence that the report was published the day before Sun announced its acquisition of MySQL.
Clearly the report does not take the Sun/MySQL deal into account, but this is clearly something that we are tracking on a long term basis. Expect some further and deeper analysis in the future to take in the MySQL deal as well as any others that follow.
Additionally, it …
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