“One thing that’s safe to say about Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius,
MySQL’s creator and founder, is that he’s as tenacious and
determined as the man he’s fighting – Oracle CEO Larry
Ellison.“Despite the fact that the Oracle-Sun Microsystems merger is
looking like a done deal, thanks to a successful appeal by Oracle
(NASDAQ: ORCL) and its allies to the skeptical European Union’s
commission on competition, Widenius is launching a worldwide
petition in a last-ditch effort to stop the merger.“The petition, called “Save MySQL!,” vows to “keep gathering
support until the very end of the process,” which would be next
month.”
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