Anyone involved with MySQL knows that Oracle agreed to purchase Sun earlier this year. Unfortunately for Oracle things haven’t gone as well as they might have hoped. Earlier today it was announced by the EC (Europenan Commission) tasked with reviewing the merger that the EC is delaying approval of the merger and they would be performing an in depth investigation of Oracle’s role in managing the MySQL database.
Daniel Wall, lead legal counselor for Oracle, said in a prepared statement on June the 26th: “we were almost able to resolve everything before the Second Request deadline. All that’s left is one narrow issue about the way rights to Java are licensed that is never going to get in the way of the deal.”
I guess he was wrong.
Oracle has said …
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