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Former MySQL CEO represents Oracle at EC hearing?
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I just came across several blog posts regarding the Oracle/Sun/MySQL war, including this one. There are a lot of interesting clarifications and opinions, but I want to highlight this comment from MySQL’s founder Monty about Mårten Mickos which is worth reading. One excerpt: That could however explain why he [Mårten] is now so eager to…
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MySQL: from Midrange to the Enterprise market
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First of all, I want to link to a blog article written by the founder of MySQL to help MySQL being rescued – everybody can stand up and tell the European Commision why the Oracle/Sun deal threatens MySQL. Second, due to a personal request, I want to make clear that this posting reflects my personal…
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Oracle’s plan to spend more money developing MySQL than Sun did
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in PHPToday, I twittered with Matthew Aslett from 451 group and pointed him to „Project Peter“ which lead to a blog post by him (see tweet). There’s an interesting statement in his blog entry: […] on the theory that Oracle will not invest in the ongoing development of MySQL, which is something it has publicly…
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State of PHP and Architecture
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in PHPWhat is the state of the art of PHP Architecture? Our CTO, Johann-Peter Hartmann, wants to know about it. Furthermore we want to know about the relevance of business goals during architecture creation. It would be great if you could help us filling out this survey, of course we’ll publish it later. Please answer questions…
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Oracle/Sun/MySQL: Ellison is now willing to create a separate entity
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in PHPAccording 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. Read more at New York Post. Via Kris Köhntopp. UPDATE: this has already been declined…
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Everybody can fork MySQL. But what about market penetration?
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When I talked with journalists, lawyers and analysts about the Oracle/Sun merger case questions were raised about the possibility to fork MySQL and that everybody who is not satisfied with Oracle’s future way regarding MySQL could do this. I don’t agree with that and I think it’s best to put Monty’s own words (found in…
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Oracle/MySQL – Project Peter – Monty’s dreams for BSD license
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These are tough days in the case of the Oracle/MySQL decision the EU faces. First of all, the lobbyists of Oracle achieved that the decision deadline will be extended from January, 19th to January, 27th 2010. Secondly, Monty recommended that a license change from GPL to BSD would be a great idea for MySQL’s future.…
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European commision hands down a formal objection to Oracle-Sun deal
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As eWeek reports, the EC handed down a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal. To quote the article: The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world’s largest commercial database company owning its largest open source competitor. Oracle responded with a statement yesterday. To quote from it: It is well understood by those…