MindBytes

Definition of  ”Oracle” :  (esp. in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry. Source : Dictionary.com

In trying to keep up with the real meaning ,Oracle Corporation , is really trying hard  acquire  Sun Microsystems , in an attempt that would give straight competition to IBM, the global leader in System Solutions and Engineering and reach the top . After the recent clearance by the U.S. Department of Justice for the deal , the open source communities were deliberating the future of MySql and Java. Thanks to EU, that it has presented its objections to the proposed acquisition. To this  Oracle has publicly claimed that the hyper-protective bureaucrats of the EU’s Commission have demonstrated “profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics”

However there are mixed responses to this merger. Ecommerce Journal says that Oracle’s previous acquisitions of “InnoDB” and “BerkeleyDB” did not affect their licensing policies and further supported the development and support to these two products. SAP has real concerns about customer choice in the database market and the future open licensing of Java.

Open Database Alliance, united its efforts to ensure that Sun’s MySQL database software would live on as a cheaper and open source alternative, really did attract the EU’s regulators

MySql , an open source database is presently being used by facebook,amazon and even this blog site, hosted by wordpress. Millions of websites which are hosted using linux and mysql, do not incur anycosts for the OS and the database saving about 2000-4000 US $.  So there is a real worry about the open licensing of the MySql post acquisition.

I feel that MySQL should be separated from the deal and allowed to be spin off as  an separate independent company to pursue its mission. Iam sure Larry Ellision would dump the deal in such a case. lets wait and watch