ERP vendor offers to take over MySQL

“Oracle announced plans to buy Sun in April. The deal has been
held up for months while European regulators conduct an antitrust
review, which has reached a climax in recent days. A main concern
of the E.U. has been the fate of MySQL if owned by Oracle, which
holds a major chunk of the database market with its own proprietary
platform.

“If the deal is approved, it will leave Nexedi and end-users in
an uncertain place, according to a letter that company CEO
Jean-Paul Smets sent to the E.U. Monday.

“Nexedi’s open-source ERP5 product is based on MySQL, which has
enabled the vendor to support a number of storage platforms and use
the MySQL Cluster technology to handle large amounts of data,
according to the letter.”

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