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Why is Oracle fighting so hard for Sun's MySQL?
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| Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) has allowed regulatory
| approval of its $7 billion acquisition of Sun
| Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O) to drag on for months
| due to controversy over a database that most
| users get for free.
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| Sun's MySQL database, while minuscule in
| revenue terms, is important to Oracle because
| it can help the company expand into new markets
| and improve its competitive edge against arch-
| rival Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), analysts say.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5AA03U20091111
Recent:
Survey: Microsoft SQL Server Tops All Databases in Emerging Markets
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| The survey of more than 400 developers also
| showed that the open source database MySQL is
| closing the lead that SQL has in emerging
| markets. According to the survey, more than 50
| percent of developers in the emerging market
| countries said they are using Microsoftâs SQL
| Server, but 46 percent said they are using
| MySQL. MySQL is slightly stronger in India and
| Latin America, but Microsoft's SQL Server leads
| in China and Latin America, Evans Data officials
| said.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Survey-Microsoft-SQL-Server-Tops-All-Databases-in-Emerging-Markets-621198/?kc=rss
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