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Two weeks prior to Oracle's announcement of the deal, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)8 terminated its talks for the acquisition with Sun as the two firms could not come to an agreement on several issues like price and change of management control. Oracle's offer for Sun was US$ 9.5 per share whereas IBM offered US$ 9.4 per share. The small difference in the bid price of Oracle and IBM drew the attention of several analysts to the deal...
6] MySQL is a relational Database Management System product of Sun Microsystems.
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