From the Other Shoe dept.:
Oracle moved closer to sealing its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Thursday, as the European Union's antitrust body formally signed off on the deal following a three-month investigation into its impact on competition in the IT sector.
"I am now satisfied that competition and innovation will be preserved on all the markets concerned," said EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes, in a statement. "Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products," said Kroes.
From the Nuke the Whales dept.:
A petition launched in December by MySQL creator Michael 'Monty' Widenius to "save" the open-source database from Oracle has quickly gained momentum, collecting nearly 17,000 signatures.
Widenius on Monday submitted an initial batch of 14,174 signatures to the European Commission, which is conducting an antitrust review of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, MySQL's current owner. European authorities had expressed concern over the future of MySQL under Oracle, which holds a major chunk of the database market with its own proprietary software.
From the Despite the Fight dept.:
While MySQL the subject of much high-profile wrangling between the EU and Oracle (and MySQL creator himself), the MySQL developers have been quietly moving the widely-used database software forward. The new beta version of MySQL, the first publicly available, features such improvements as near-asynchronous replication and more options for partitioning. A new release model has been enacted as well, bequeathing this version the title of 'MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2.
From the Open Late dept.:
I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate help Oracle might get to own MySQL any day now. By writing to the European Commission (EC) you can support this cause and help secure the future development of the product MySQL as an Open Source project.
Security Fix: MySQL clients linked against OpenSSL did not check server certificates presented by a server linked against yaSSL. (Bug#47320)
MySQL Cluster: When a data node had written its GCI marker to the first page of a megabyte, and that node was later killed during restart after having processed that page (marker) but before completing a LCP, the data node could fail with filesystem errors. (Bug#44952)
From the Hands Off dept.:
Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its cofounder and creator Michael "Monty" Widenius said in a blog post on Monday.
From the Migration dept.:
Ingres Database 9.3 provides easy migration from MySQL and proprietary databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase.
*Applications that search for and manipulate text based on patterns can now take advantage of Ingres' superior scalability and security
*The LIKE predicate has been extended to work with Long Objects to facilitate porting FOSS applications
*Identity columns reduce the cost of porting applications that rely on auto-increment columns
*Named Results extend the flexibility of Ingres stored procedures and make porting applications that depend on stored procedures much easier
*Extended .Net support reduce the cost of porting applications from SQL Server
*One-click configuration options for common workloads make getting started with Ingres easier than ever regardless of which database you are migrating from
From the Fines dept.:
Speaking at a forum in Silicon Valley, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that the delay while European Union regulators consider whether to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun is costing the latter company US$100 million a month. He also insisted that the Oracle would maintain MySQL and outlined an ambitious future for the combined companies.
From the PostgreSQL's/SQLite's Time dept.:
Oracle Corp. figured its $7.4 billion buyout for Sun Microsystems Inc. could skate through antitrust scrutiny, folding Sun into a technology powerhouse when Sun badly needs the lifeline. Both companies will have to wait.
European Union regulators applied the brakes Thursday, launching a formal antitrust probe that shatters Oracle's goal of completing the acquisition this summer. The U.S. Department of Justice has already approved the deal.
From the Not Oracle dept.:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4, continuing the rapid development of the world's most advanced open source database. This release contains an abundance of enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier than ever before. With 293 new or improved features in version 8.4, there are even more reasons to choose PostgreSQL for your next project.
The most numerous changes in PostgreSQL 8.4 are new or improved administration and monitoring tools and commands. Each user has their own favorite features which will make day-to-day work with PostgreSQL easier and more productive for them.
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