Since Sun announced its acquisition of MySQL for $1bn, there have been some suggestions that perhaps Sun paying too much for the open source database vendor. Calculating the multiple for MySQL has proved difficult because there are no official figures to go on, and also because many of the unofficial figures that are floating around are contradictory.
Prior to the acquisition being announced a number of revenue figures for MySQL had been publicly disclosed. For example:
- 2006 revenue of $50m, according to Cnet. …