Today the EU commission gave free hands to Oracle to deal with the SUN MySQL ownership. Oracle must deliver proof to the EU that Oracle owning MySQL does not harm the free competition. The CEO of MySQL said he is fine with that Oracle owns MySQL, but that makes it difficult for Oracle to proove that Oracle owning both Oracle database and MySQL database will not harm the competition.
There has been suggestions that Oracle could make the MySQL unit of SUN an independant opensource wing, but to deliver undisputable proof to the EU, it would be easier if Oracle would let MySQL go.
Oracle wants to keep MySQL though, as the Oracle CEO said earlier that Oracle database is used for legacy applications, while MySQL is used for modern Web database applications.
SUN had to fire 3000 employees yesterday, since waiting for EU's acceptance and their demand of proof from Oracle costs them 100 million USD per day.
MySQL is a free opensource database engine, which beats Oracle database in speed, capacity and costs. It can be used also seamlessly with IBM Domino and Microsoft SharePoint to improve database technology in both systems.
