Well, here's as good a proof as any of the silliness of Sun's purchase of MySQL: Gartner likes it:

The MySQL purchase immediately casts Sun in the role of a major open-source database management system vendor with heterogeneous operating system solutions. IBM, Oracle and Red Hat will likely feel some market pressure.

Lost in their admiration: Sun spent $1B, for a company with annual profits of $60M. Makes tons of sense, if you work for Gartner. If you have a brain, on the other hand...

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