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StartupCamp 5 in SF This Weekend

Sun Microsystems is rolling on with its StartupCamp series, hosting the latest one (the fifth) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Jonathan Schwartz the CEO kicked it off on Sunday, 4 May with the more...

Discuss | Topic: Conferences | by Jitendra 108 days ago (gigaom.com)

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Sun Snaps Russian-Developed Desktop Virtualization VirtualBox

German headquartered, Innotek, the makers of VirtualBox which runs on various operating systems Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and OpenSolaris is being accquired by Sun Microsystems. Since its release in January more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 190 days ago (blog.quintura.com)

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Greenplum closes on $27million round of financing

Meritech, Sun Microsystems and SAP Ventures closed a big round of funding for startup Greenplum. "We invested in Greenplum because we're seeing a growing demand for scalable database technologies to support more...

Discuss | Topic: Funding Announcement | by Jitendra 209 days ago (beyondvc.com)

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Oracle is the only winner in Sun-MySQL Deal

Sun Microsystems Inc. gobbling up MySQL is perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the histor of tech mergers and acquisitions.
The move, announced earlier this week, is potentially more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Ipod 216 days ago (marketwatch.com)

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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun is acquiring open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used by many of the web's largest companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 218 days ago (readwriteweb.com)

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Sun Startup Camp 3 in NY announced

Sun which as been spearheading the Startup Camp series of unconferences has announced that the Startup Camp 3 will be held in New York on 22 and 23 October 2007. more...