What is new in the deal is that Oracle finally gets its wish to own MySQL. In 2007 Oracle offered as much as $850 million for MySQL, the third of its offers for the open-source database company.

This time, Oracle effectively got MySQL for free, as the valuation for Sun almost certainly wasn’t raised much by its MySQL asset, acquired in 2008 by Sun for $1 billion.

What Oracle will not want, however, is for its customers to get MySQL for free.

via CNET