Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 20:17 UTC
SUN Microsystems When the news broke that Oracle wanted to buy Sun, a number of eyebrows were raised over what would happen to Sun's open source portfolio. While the US Department of Justice gave the green light for the deal to go through, the European Commission was among the eye brows raising crowd, and they were quite worried about the future of specifically MySQL.
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RE[2]: Why is this news?
by Lunitik on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 12:27 UTC in reply to "RE: Why is this news?"
Lunitik
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Well, I mean, I'd think they'd start offering parts of their traditional database software as an upgrade... OracleDB wasn't really designed for the web, but Fusion was... easier to just use something else that was designed for the web... aka MySQL

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