The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would harm competition in the database market. Oracle responded that it would "vigorously oppose" the Commission, saying its position reflects "a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
* Says affected by downturn, uncertainty over Oracle deal (Adds background on EU probe, Oracle deal)
The Register (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
My baby needs a new home MySQL author Marty Widenius has come out in favor of regulators probing Oracle's ownership of MySQL - and against Sun and Oracle execs past and present.…
The Register (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
GPL does code, not 'brand' If Oracle screws up MySQL, the community will fork and the database will live on under another name - leaving Oracle high and dry.…
