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Battle around MySQL heats up

December 13, 2009
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Peter Zaitsev
Peter Zaitsev
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As the deadline for EC to decide if Oracle can acquire Sun and hence MySQL is coming up the tensions seems to heat up. Monty posts his open letter calling for help lobbying EC to stop Oracle from buying MySQL .

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yolanda!
yolanda!
16 years ago

I disappoint.

But why Michael “Monty” Widenius sell MySQL to Sun?

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