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It said this morning that
it had reached a
compromise price with BEA
and that the acquisition
would go through after
all, having been resisted
by BEA, demanded by BEA's
biggest stockholder, the
dangerous Carl Icahn, and
walked away from by
Oracle. Oracle is going
to pay $19.375 a share
Sun, Oracle's sometimes
best friend, turned into
an Oracle competitor this
morning when it said it
was buying MySQL, the
open source database
that's part of the famous
LAMP stack. It's paying a
billion dollars. MySQL
was supposed to go public
this year but picked the
easier monetizatio
Brian Stevens, the Chief
Technology Officer and
Vice President of
Engineering of Red Hat,
delivered his
Virtualization Keynote
'The Future of the
Virtual Enterprise' at
SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo 2007
West in San Francisco.
'Virtualization is the
hottest subject today,
Key opinion-formers in
the field of
infrastructure and
pioneers of
virtualization
technologies of all types
have already begun
submitting speaking
proposals to
Virtualization Conference
& Expo 2008 East, being
held in New York City,
23-24 June, 2008. Topics
covered will range from
Appl 
