European Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Merger

rubycodez writes "The anti-trust body of the EU, the European Commission, has approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, believing competition would be preserved. It saw PostgreSQL as a viable independent alternative to MySQL and that market access to Java would not be restricted. Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year."

Comments

Re:Time to get more familiar with PostgreSQL

[poetmatt]

well, I knew MS was deep rooted at slashdot, but I didn't know they employed people in the 7000 UID.

What's worse, MySQL being kept alive by oracle, or being owned by MS? Oh right, lets decry MySQL supposedly dying.

Re:Time to get more familiar with PostgreSQL

[Anonymous Coward]

What, and MySQL is competing with Oracle DB head on? :D How many of the people who are currently using MySQL do you honestly believe would use Oracle DB if MySQL dissapeared?

Besides, even if we were to seriously consider, for the sake of argument, that Oracle would kill MySQL, I would say 'good riddance'. MySQL is a piece of crap, a toy database engine, and the world would be a better place if people would use decent alternatives instead.

Re:Time to get more familiar with PostgreSQL

[Bigbutt]

Wait. So Oracle Express only supports 4 Gigs of database, one instance at a time, 1 Gig of RAM, one processor, and only 32 bit?

Why would I want to use Oracle Express again? It looks like it wouldn't work at all for my current projects.

[John]

Re:Time to get more familiar with PostgreSQL

[Bigbutt]

Oracle Express only supports 4 Gigs per database, you can only run one instance at a time, limited to 1 Gig of RAM even if you have more, one processor again even if you're running SMP, and only 32 bit?

Why would I want to use Oracle Express again?

[John]

Re:No, there is Oracle Express free of charge

[Bigbutt]

I know I won't be using it based on the Oracle FAQ. It's too limited for my usage.

[John]