NEW YORK, Jan 16 (Reuters) – sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it will buy open source developer mysql AB for about $1 billion, allowing it to expand into an estimated $15 billion database market. (http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1628233020080116)

Personally, I hope this means good things for MySQL. All the best…