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Sun acquires MySQL

In Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog post he talks about why Sun purchased MySQL and what it means for them and the internet industry at large. Sun paid $1,000,000,000 USD for MySQL which had $50,000,000 USD in revenue last year.

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Google Summer of Code update on multiple database support

Philipp Kreen, one of our Google Summer of Coders, is still working on his project: a great example of how Google has given us open source volunteers from all over the world who are contributing to make SilverStripe better!

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Google Summer of Code Fruit #6: Multiple-database support

While we freeze in New Zealand, I struggle to conceive Philipp Krenn working on his Google project in Austria in anything but blizzard-ravaged Alps... Supposedly it is summer holidays there; our only proof is the progress he's made on allowing SilverStripe to work with different types of databases!

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