Many bloggers, journalists and analysts have covered extensively the acquisition of MySQL. Today SearchSOA (part of TechTarget) posted this interesting piece that speculates on further acquisitions by Sun. Forrester analyst James Kobelius is quoted in there, saying “Sun may also be looking to acquire an ETL tool vendor, possibly the Talend open source technology.”

Of course, our official position is “we don’t comment on rumors about equity operations” - as it should be for any soundly managed startup. So I won’t comment on the rumor. I’ll just say that we are proud to be viewed as a potential acquisition target for Sun!

Tomorrow we’ll release a piece of interesting news about an important partnership. When we pre-briefed press and analysts about it these past couple days, they all asked if we were also considering equity links with this new partner. Again, I won’t comment on this - even if it’s not a rumor yet (wait until tomorrow to see who the partner is). But it’s funny how each acquisition spreads rumors in its wake…

Stay tuned for more (unsubstantiated) rumors.

Yves