The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. After the acquisition was completed, Oracle, only a software vendor prior to the merger, owned Sun's hardwa
A rusting Sun Microsystems van as seen at the Oracle-acquired Santa Clara, California campus in 2016
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MySQL is a free and open-source relational database management system. Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius' daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Qu
David Axmark (left) and Michael "Monty" Widenius, founders of MySQL AB (2003)
Geir Høydalsvik, current Senior Software Development Director for MySQL at Oracle in 2018