With the European Commission seen as virtually certain to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in just a week, those campaigning to prevent the deal encompassing Sun's MySQL database unit have shifted their efforts to regulators in Russia and China.
MySQL founder Michael 'Monty' Widenius said in a statement Monday that the Commission, Europe's top competition regulator, showed weakness when it struck a deal with Oracle last month that paved the way for an unconditional approval of the acquisition of Sun. Widenius left MySQL in 2009 and might have been part of a group of possible bidders for the unit should it have been ruled an impediment to the merger.
"The European Commission showed courage and competence during most of the investigation but looked very weak in the end," he said in the statement, adding that China and Russia "are powerful, self-confident and open-source-friendly countries and they have every right to do a better job on this than the E.U."
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MySQL founder Michael 'Monty' Widenius said in a statement Monday that the Commission, Europe's top competition regulator, showed weakness when it struck a deal with Oracle last month that paved the way for an unconditional approval of the acquisition of Sun. Widenius left MySQL in 2009 and might have been part of a group of possible bidders for the unit should it have been ruled an impediment to the merger.
"The European Commission showed courage and competence during most of the investigation but looked very weak in the end," he said in the statement, adding that China and Russia "are powerful, self-confident and open-source-friendly countries and they have every right to do a better job on this than the E.U."
More: http://pcworld.com/article/187121/
