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Oracle leader blinks
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| Oracle boss Larry Ellison is backing down
| from his vow to fight European antitrust
| regulators who oppose his company's $7
| billion purchase of Sun Microsystems,
| offering to quarantine a Sun unit at the
| heart of the conflict, two sources told
| The Post.
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| According to the sources, Ellison is now
| willing to create a separate entity within
| a combined Oracle-Sun that houses Sun's
| MySQL open database software business in
| order to get the deal completed before a
| hearing Thursday by the European
| Commission.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/oracle_leader_blinks_rGFrd9IKqLWrTqG3ZCaTdO
Oracle Denies Change In Stance On MySQL
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| The database giant denies that it offered
| to create a separate entity for MySQL once
| the Sun acquisition is completed.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222000738
EC Worries On Oracle-Sun Deal Said Based On Incorrect Facts
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| A U.S. expert has lent his support to the
| planned merger between Oracle Corp. (ORCL)
| and Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA), telling
| the European Commission that concerns
| about the deal are based on "factual
| assertions made by others to the
| Commission which are demonstrably
| incorrect."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091204-712677.html
Oracle RDBMS != MySQL RDBMS
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| The Oracle and MySQL RDBMS are very
| different products. This makes me happy. I
| used to work on the Oracle RDBMS. It has a
| lot of features that do amazing things.
| Unfortunately, this also makes it
| extremely hard to modify. MySQL doesn't
| have as many features. This makes it
| easier to modify. This also means there
| are a lot of things to fix in it when you
| care about high-performance and high-
| availability OLTP workloads.
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http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/12/oracle-rdbms-mysql-rdbms.html
451 Group survey highlights user concerns over Oracleâs proposed ownership of MySQL
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/12/04/451-group-survey-highlights-user-concerns-over-oracles-proposed-ownership-of-mysql/
Survey shows open source users split over MySQL
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| MySQL use declining, PostgreSQL and
| MariaDB use rising and no majority support
| for any of the possible outcomes of the
| current European Commission investigation
| into Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun
| Microsystems; these are some of the
| results of a survey, carried out by the
| 451 Group, of open source users show which
| shows they are split over the future of
| MySQL.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Survey-shows-open-source-users-split-over-MySQL-877589.html
SFLC says GPL issues should not block Oracle's acquisition of Sun
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| Respected Free Software lawyer, Eben
| Moglen and the SFLC (Software Freedom Law
| Centre ) have sent a letter to the
| European Commission saying that it
| believes that the Commission has
| "underestimated the robustness the GPL has
| consistently demonstrated". The letter is
| a response to the concerns expressed in
| the Commission's Statement of Objections
| that the GNU Public Licence was
| insufficient protection against
| competition issues raised by the
| acquisition. The letter was sent, pro
| bono, at the request of Oracle's counsel
| and is to be incorporated into Oracle's
| response at the hearing of objections,
| scheduled to take place on December 10th.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/SFLC-says-GPL-issues-should-not-block-Oracle-s-acquisition-of-Sun-877968.html
Will Sun Pull MySQL's Teeth?
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/12/will_sun_pull_m.html;jsessionid=LS4CLY1JQMSPHQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN
Maintaining MySQL Databases
http://beginlinux.com/blog/2009/12/maintaining-mysql-databases/
Securing MySQL in Fedora
http://technologytales.com/2009/12/04/securing-mysql-in-fedora/
The Software Freedom Law Center Submits an Opinion on the Oracle/Sun Merger to the EC
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2009/dec/04/software-freedom-law-center-submits-opinion-oracle/
Recent:
Open-source culture at heart of Oracle deal
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| But like most open-source companies, MySQLâs
| sales, tied to support deals, never matched
| the astronomical number of downloads for its
| product, about 60,000 a day. In January 2008,
| the founders decided to sell the company for
| $1 billion to Sun Microsystems. And this
| year, Sun agreed to sell itself to Oracle,
| which makes database software aimed at larger
| companies and tougher jobs, for $7.4 billion.
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http://www.mydigitalfc.com/companies/open-source-culture-heart-oracle-deal-702
Oracle begs EC for more time
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| The European Competition Commission is
| extending the deadline set for Oracle to
| provide evidence that its proposed takeover
| of Sun Microsystems will not damage
| competition for European consumers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/oracle_commission_extension/
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