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
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