With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle is bringing the MySQL database into the fold, which analysts agree will pose a challenge for Microsoft and IBM. IBM, however, says its strategy will be unaffected.
– As Oracle
lays out its integration plans for newly
acquired Sun Microsystems, the two rivals it has most obviously affected in
the database space are IBM and Microsoft.
The acquisition of Sun brings with it MySQL, a database that has grown in
popularity during recent years, particularly for bus…