Big Fish eat little fish, only to have bigger fish eat them

Thought it was more than coincidental that yesterday we saw news that Sun was acquiring MySQL for a billion dollars (the largest ever deal for an open source company) to get into the database business, while at the same time database giant Oracle was buying application vendor BEA for 8.5 Billion.  I guess that puts the 1 billion price in perspective.  The Wall Street Journal has a good article on whether this will kick off a wave of deals in Silicon Valley. With all of the dire predictions of the economic bad times ahead, maybe this is just what the doctor ordered.  In the meantime remember that every time you think the big fish ate the little fish, there is always another fish out there that is bigger.