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Sun to Buy Swedish Software Firm for $1 Billion (New York Times) - Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion.

U.S. OMB pushes for software as a service (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to SaaS (software as a service), saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs.

Sun paying $1 billion in database software push (International Herald Tribune) - The server maker's acquisition of the open-source software company MySQL of Sweden gives it access to some of the hottest companies on the Web, including Google and Yahoo.

Sun Buying Swedish Software Firm for $1 Billion (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Sun said that it would buy MySQL, a Swedish company that is the world leader in open-source database software used by Internet powers like Google, Yahoo, MySpace and YouTube.

Sun Microsystems buys software maker MySQL (USA Today) - Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to buy open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, beefing up the server maker's database offerings with a company whose technology is used by some of the world's biggest websites.

Sun makes move into database software (International Herald Tribune) - The server maker's acquisition of the open-source software company MySQL of Sweden for $1 billion gives it access to some of the hottest companies on the Web.

St. Jude gets FDA approval for software (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved new software from St. Jude Medical Inc. that helps doctors create detailed heart models, the company said Wednesday.

Software company sold for £100m (BBC News) - A Belfast-based computer software company is sold to the New York Stock Exchange for about £100m.

St. Jude Heart Therapy Software Approved (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - St. Jude Medical Inc. said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration approved new software for the medical device maker's irregular-heartbeat therapy system.

Big Brother software...courtesy of Microsoft (TechWorld) - It knows what you had for lunch. Microsoft has a patent pending on potentially hugely controversial software, which remotely monitors, big brother style, a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.