MySQL

...earlier this month laying out competition problems that they see with the deal, claiming Oracle's purchase of open-source database software MySQL could eliminate a crucial rival and hike prices. The EU can block the takeover - which has...

In this article: Oracle Corp, EU, Web-based, Sun Microsystems Inc., Brussels, and United States

...its deadline to Jan. 27 from Jan. 19. It gave no further details. The Commission said in a preliminary assessment that combining Sun's MySQL database product and Oracle's products could hurt competition over databases, Sun said in a filing...

In this article: Oracle, European Union, Sun Microsystems, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook, and Google

pDC UPDate aEUR" Windows Azure for PHP, MySQL and a host of other popular open-source tools Thanks to much tweeting I am beginning to be jealous of Greg Willis, Catherine Eibner, Richard Banks and others overseas at #PDC09. Particularly...

In this article: PHP, Michael Miller, Cloud computing, and PC Magazine

...that the two databases serve different markets - as Oracle and Sun have recently - is wrong. While Oracle serves massive operations MySQL cannot touch, Sun had begun using MySQL to try and siphon off smaller Oracle customers before the deal. ®...

In this article: Oracle, European Union, JCP, Sun Microsystems, SAP, and Silicon Valley

...left Sun earlier this year to set up his own small database firm Monty Program Ab, which competes head-to-head with MySQL. Sun bought MySQL for $1 billion just last year and Oracle has said it does not plan to divest MySQL. The global...

In this article: Oracle, Microsoft, European Union, IBM, Linux, Hewlett-Packard, and Neelie Kroes