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		briansmith on April 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle to buy Sun Monty already left Sun last month to start his own fork of MySQL.

staunch on April 20, 2009 | [–]

The Open Source golden parachute.

briansmith on April 20, 2009 | | [–]

Let's wait and see if he actually makes any money before we call it "golden".

jonknee on April 20, 2009 | | | [–]

I think the billion dollar exit and then quick departure would be the referenced golden parachute.

pbz on April 21, 2009 | [–]

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