Deal Radar 2010: Webyog

By guest author Shailesh Otari Today’s Deal Radar goes back to India, to a Bangalore-based product company called Webyog. Webyog is a leader in GUI and monitoring tools for MySQL databases. Its flagship product, SQLyog, is a graphical environment for MySQL. The company also provides MySQL monitoring and advisory tools called MONyog for MySQL DBAs.

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Deal Radar 2009: EnterpriseDB

Deal Radar kicks the week off with yet another open source company, but one with rather large aspirations. EnterpriseDB was formed in an attempt to disrupt the three-company (Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft) oligopoly that controls the enterprise database market, of which Oracle owns more than half. The company says that as a result of this

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Sun Should Pursue OpenSource Full Blast

Last year when Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) took over MySQL, I asked if it would get into open source applications.

Today’s Two Big Acquisitions

Sun is buying open source database maker MySQL for $1 Billion. More than 100 million copies of MySQL’s database software have been downloaded and 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. MySQL had raised $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, and was in IPO discussions. It’s good to see that MySQL has found a

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