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After next week, Oracle's $7.4 billion roller-coaster ride will finally come to an end, as there remains little doubt that the European Commission will approve the company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. With that being the case, protesters from the MySQL community have all but given up the battle in Europe and are now turning their attention to regulators in Russia and China, ITNews.com reports.
"The European Commission showed courage and competence during most of the investigation but looked very weak in the end," said MySQL founder Michael 'Monty' Widenius in a statement on Monday, adding that China and Russia "are powerful, self-confident, and open-source friendly countries and they have every right to do a better job on this than the EU."
Both nations are still investigating the deal and have yet to give Oracle the green light. So far, Widenius' helpmysql.org campaign has managed to attract 600 supporters in China and over 800 in Russia. On a global scale, the campaign stands at 30,000 signatures strong since its launch on December 28.
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domih2009
January 19, 2010 at 8:26pm
MySQL sold itself to SUN for $$$.
SUN is selling itself to Oracle for $$$.
Now it is time to "free" MySQL again because Larry Ellison is... whatever.
If you want to keep your software free, do not sell it for $$$ in the first place.
nekollx
January 19, 2010 at 11:29am
a little late to the party, just give it up people.
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Trendecide
January 19, 2010 at 8:13am
Oracle has a history of destroying everything it touches. Most notably as of late was Sleepycat's Berkeley DB which was clearly ignored for ages, ripped apart and destroyed to bolster Oracle sales before throwing together a half-assed version to shutup the enthusiasts who previously supported the database.
Granted, Oracle is an excellent database, but I really hope Oracle doesn't do to mySQL what they did to Berkeley DB. mySQL has become THE web database of choice by web developers (aside from the .NET devs who swear by msSQL... also a good database).
Although I do want to say much of the mySQL community wasn't too thrilled when Sun came into the picture a few years ago either (hence why Oracle can have Sun, but not mySQL), I hope this merger won't hinder mySQL as we know it today. Oracle's history however doesn't exactly paint a positive future for mySQL should Oracle get a hold of it.
Logical next step after this one for Oracle is postgreSQL, or will they take the larger step and go after Microsoft's SQL?
