The Financial Times reports on the morning of December 9 that IBM Software Group uberlord Steve Mills has come down on the side of Oracle (ORCL) in its fight to get European Union (EU) approval of the Sun (JAVA) acquisition.
Mills confirms what Oracle has been saying: he never sees MySQL in IBM database sales situations. My guess: those 60,000 daily downloads of MySQL are about as significant as the billions of AOL diskettes that were mailed out in the 1990s just to fill up U.S. landfills.
Good for Steve Mills! Now it's time for the other Steve to step up and say to the EU:
"Don't do to Oracle what you did to Microsoft (MSFT)!"
In fact, Steve Ballmer could add,
"Larry Ellison is not the pussycat that I was. He'll take out 20,000 jobs, a few factories and warehouses, and anything else he can find related to Oracle and Sun in the EU if you don't approve the deal."
In fact, Ellison may just gut Snoracle in the EU anyways just for the aggravation the bozos have caused him. It's probably cut into the Hawaii regatta season.
The Financial Times, to be fair and balanced journalistically, went out and interviewed the only guy in the world who seems to be against Oracle's acquisition, the guy with the agenda behind the whole mess the EU Competition Commission has found itself snookered into. Self-proclaimed open source advocate Florian Mueller says in an email to journalists:
"The problem with hoping for future contributions from large companies is just that MySQL has historically not had Linux-like support from companies like IBM, which has its own database business anyway."
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