[FC-discuss] Open Source aspects Oracle/Sun merger

[James Love]

(Sorry about the typos and other mistakes in the message below)

Some market share info for MySQL are available in these links.  

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2008-0116/mysql_factsataglance.pdf

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 11:38 -0400, James Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 11:38 -0400, James Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:42 -0700, Alex Kozak wrote:
> > For the sake of discussion, what are the open source issues related to
> > the merger?
> > - Alex Kozak
> 
>    MySQL (the M in LAMP) provide a very important free open source SQL
> database.  Oracle provides a very pricy closed source database.  Prices
> for licensing the Oracle database and the Microsoft SQL server have been
> driven down by competition.  MySQL is part of that competition.
> 
>    What will happen to MySQL if the merger goes through?  Will it have
> efficient investment to continue to be as relevant has it has become?
> Should Oracle be allowed to acquire MySQL?  Is the fact that MySQL can
> be forked enough of protection for the users of MySQL?
> 
>   OpenOffice.Org (OO.o) is right now the main thing checking Microsoft's
> monopoly power in the office suite market, and providing a challenge to
> Microsoft's control over data formats, by implementing ODF.  Sun was
> providing the most support to this project.  Will Oracle be tempted to
> cut a deal with Microsoft, to cut off support for OO.o?  
> 
>   Java is now a pretty important part of the web.  Sun discusses some of
> the openness issues here:
> 
> http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#h
> 
> There are issues, I believe, regarding the patents on Java, that are not
> resolved by the licensing of most of the software code.
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM, James Love <james.love at keionline.org>
> > wrote:
> >         KEI is meeting with DOJ on Wed to discuss the open source
> >         aspects of the
> >         Oracle/Sun merger.  We will be focusing on MySQL, Java and
> >         OO.o.
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