Sun targets open source LAMP stack with MySQL acquisition
17 January 2008 
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In a surprise announcement, MySQL reveals that it has been acquired by Sun. This acquisition appears to be part of a broader strategy by Sun to displace the LAMP stack with its own Solaris and Java technologies.
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MySQL has gained 25% market share in overall database usage by developers in the last two years, according to data drawn from a range of recent multi-client surveys published by Evans Data Corporation, a vendor-neutral third-party market research firm. The data shows 40% database usage by developers, up from 32% two years ago. Evans Data Corp. noted that with more and more developers using Open Source (65% in North America in Fall 2006), usage of MySQL is projected to continue to increase in the future.
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