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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020F6" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">People have probably already seen this on twitter but just in case....</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">It appears Oracle has mobilized customers to write letters to the Commission and basically dictated the content by telephone. Based on what we heard from at least one such customer, Oracle apparently tried to particularly appeal to customers who also use Java and/or Sun hardware, and Oracle basically tried to capitalize on customer concerns about Sun's overall future in case the deal falls through, while the European Commission's concerns are only about MySQL, not about the rest of Sun. Monty just wants a solution for MySQL (the simplest and most effective one would be for Oracle to commit to sell MySQL to a suitable third party).</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial">In light of this aggressive campaigning by Oracle, Monty made the following call on the open source community a few hours ago:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0020f6" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0020f6"><a href="http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html">http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020F6" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020F6" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Aidan</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020F6" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>