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Email Confirmation
Jan 21 2008
11:30AM
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Value-per-Employee Datapoint of the Day
Sun has bought MySQL - a company which gives its main product away for free - for $1 billion, or about $2.5 million per employee. Which is pretty much exactly the same valuation per employee as the market puts on Goldman Sachs.
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