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December 4, 2009  3:55 PM

Oracle reportedly offers compromise to appease the European Commission on MySQL



Posted by: Ed Scannell
European Commission, MySQL, open source database, Oracle-Sun deal

In his eyeball-to-eyeball stare down with the European Commission (EC) over MySQL, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison may have blinked. Multiple reports today say Ellison is willing to setup a separate entity within the combined Oracle-Sun that would be responsible for operating the MySQL open source...

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November 4, 2009  9:36 PM

Bad week for Larry



Posted by: Ed Scannell
European Commission, MySQL, open source database, Oracle database

Not the best of weeks for Team Oracle in or out of the water. First came reports late Tuesday that the European Commission (EC) was nearing a decision to issue an official statement of objection over Oracle's proposed bid to acquire Sun Microsystems. Issuing such a statement is largely...

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