You CAN make money from Open Source software…

The acquisition of XenSource by Citrix a few months ago was a powerful example, and yesterday Sun announced that they will be paying $1B for MySQL, which many people thought might have an IPO this year.

It’s a surprise, but I think Sun will probably be good guardians of what has become one of the most important Open Source projects.

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