From: Martijn Tonies
Date: December 17 2009 12:34pm
Subject: Re: Help saving MySQL
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>I see some of your point Martin but I think the eu would look at that 
>letter and see
>the author is stating 'MySQL has been used as a pricing lever'. That single 
>factor
>should be enough for them to be very concerned by an acquisition as 
>removing an
>effective pricing lever from the market by acquisition is anti-competitive 
>and helps
>increase or maintain high prices.

Believe me, the EU (Smit Kroes) ain't exactly stupid... That single factor 
only makes
a difference -if there are no alternatives- (eg: other lower prices database 
systems),
and yet, there are. So I doubt if that's gonna make a difference.

>I don't believe you could use any other open source database as a pricing 
>lever
> in the same way because none are as mature or offer the levels of support 
> that
>MySQL does and no other open source system can boast the performance
>benefits (especially with ndbcluster) or the availability of suitably 
>trained and
>certified people to support their products.

I beg to differ, heck, I also would like to aadd that some things in MySQL 
are
not mature whatsoever compared to other DBMSses, being open source or not.


MySQL is gonna have one big struggle to get things straight after this...


Mind you, it would certainly be easier and probably better for business if 
Oracle
didn't get MySQL, I agree with you on that ;-) But it's not about what -we- 
think.




With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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