Hasbro asking Facebook to remove Scrabulous app

• Mattel requires the American social safety net to prevent use of their game among Internet users.
• The conflict concerns Scrabuluous, an application that users can add to their Facebook profile.
• The online game is as popular as the original table game and has an average of half a million active users.

The creators of Scrabble crosswords game have asked Facebook social network administrators to remove its Web application Scrabulous, an online unauthorized adaptation of one of its most popular products.

As the name suggests, Scrabulous is an online version of Scrabble that has become one of the most popular Facebook apps - even founder Mark Zuckerberg’s recently admitted in a 60 Minutes interview that he enjoys playing the game with his grandparents.

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote on his blog about the aquisition.
MySQL AB and Sun have announced that MySQL has been bought by Sun.

"Sun Microsystems today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately USD 1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the USD 15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor."

More info here:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion; Open Source Is A Legitimate Business Model
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/