Should Oracle Dump Europe Before MySQL?

November 16, 2009

Oracle's push to get its purchase of Sun completed has hit a well-publicized snag with the European Commission on competition. The EC wants to be sure that Sun's popular open source database, MySQL, will continue to evolve and be a free alternative to commercial offerings from Oracle, IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft and others.

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