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"Those supporters say that MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius, free software advocate Richard Stallman, and others are whipping up unfounded fears about the future of MySQL in order to get the European Commission to either quash the entire deal or at... Full Article at Internet.com
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A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle's pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Full Article at InfoWorld
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A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Full Article at The Industry Standard
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If Oracle screws up MySQL, the community will fork and the database will live on under another name - leaving Oracle high and dry. At least that's the open-source theory. Full Article at The Register
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A number of organizations supporting Open Source have sent an open letter to the Commissioner for Competition of the European Commission asking that Oracle not be permitted to acquire the MySQL database, and are being supported by a similar request... Full Article at Channel Web
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I may be a contrarian on this, but I don't think Oracle will have any dramatically-enhanced market power
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In fact, Oracle in a FAQ on its Web site [immediately after the Sun acquisition was announced on April 20] stated that MySQL was only going to be an 'addition' to its database product line. It didn't say anything about investing more until the EC came out and questioned this
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The lack of a more flexible license for MySQL will present considerable barriers to a new forked development path for MySQL
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If Oracle is allowed to acquire MySQL, it will predictably limit the development of the functionality and performance of the MySQL software platform, leading to profound harm to those who use MySQL software to power applications
