The company was dually headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, and Cupertino, California, with offices in other countries (France (Paris), Germany (Munich), Ireland (Dublin), Italy (Milan), and Japan (Tokyo)).
[3] Together with Linux, Apache, and PHP, the MySQL Server forms one of the building blocks of the LAMP technology stack.
MySQL AB representatives are commonly cited as champions of what they claim to be a "second generation" of open source companies.
[citation needed] The revenues of both first and second generation open source companies usually derive from selling support, consulting services, and training for their products.
[5][6] On 16 January 2008, MySQL AB announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Sun Microsystems for approximately $1 billion.