Oracle Completes Takeover of Sun Microsystems

Oracle completes takeover of Sun
Oracle Corporation has announced that it has completed the nine-month takeover of Sun Microsystems first announced in April 2009. [...] Oracle shall continue to enhance MySQL and make subsequent versions of MySQL, including Version 6, available under the GPL (General Public License).

How the Sun continues to rise
Where Oracle will now take Sun remains to be seen. But, at the very least, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has given the open source community two very viable enterprise products, Solaris and Java –though, ironically, some would argue the move also spelt the downfall of Sun, which no longer had two very viable enterprise products to sell. Regardless, for as long as the open source community continues to build upon Java and Solaris, then Sun will continue to rise, even if the company has ceased to exist.