Oracle to Purchase Sun

[Rob Brandt]

I sense an anti-trust violation.  I suspect that the FTC will only 
approve of this acquisition if MySQL is not included.

Rob

Jock Philip wrote, On 4/20/2009 7:55 AM:
> Looking at a different article about it, something that may concern some
> folks on this list
> 
> "Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that open source
> database mess with the margins of his database. MySQL at best will wither
> from neglect. In any case, MySQL is MyToast."
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598&tag=nl.e539
> 
> Jock
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com 
>> [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Frank Bradley
>> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 6:54 AM
>> To: OmnisDev List - English
>> Subject: OT: Oracle to Purchase Sun
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> So some of us expected the purchaser of Sun to be IBM, well 
>> ORACLE today at 5:50am announced the purchase of Sun for 
>> 9:70USD per share, 7.8 billion USD, what a suprise.
>>
>> CNet has the news story at
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10223044-92.html?tag=newsLead
>> StoriesArea.1
>>
>> Frank
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