Although Digital Trends doesn’t normally cover news in enterprise computing, a recent development bears some mention: Sun Microsystems has announced it plans to aquire open source database developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion. MySQL is very likely the most widely-deployed open source database in the world, with more than 100 million copies downloaded, with another 500,000 copies distributed every day. MySQL powers both everyday Web sites like blogs and small businesses, as well as high-profile, high-traffic sites that, for whatever reasons, preferred an open source solution to commercial products from the likes of Oracle and Microsoft.
