MySQL founder collects tens of thousands of signatures against Oracle's acquisition of Sun

On July 22, January 4, Beijing time: According to foreign media reports, Michael Widenius, the founder of the open-source MySQL database, and Oracle, held a contest regarding the fate of MySQL. Monius collected signatures from 14 thousand people and requested anti-monopoly Agencies in the European Union, China and Russia to prevent oracle from acquiring Sun, the East house of MySQL.

According to the statement, the person signing the signature does not believe that Oracle will protect MySQL in the future. He said that until the last moment, he will put the plans against the acquisition to the end.

It is said that more than 5000 of all registrants are self-employed developers, and more than 3000 are employees of companies and institutions that use MySQL. In the first week of the signature activity, conius received 14 thousand support. At present, signature documents have been sent to the European Commission and EU institutions, as well as the anti-monopoly institutions of 27 EU Member States, and the documents have also been submitted to the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Russian Federation.

MySQL is a world-renowned open-source database. As part of the LAMP Development Kit, it supports background databases for many websites around the world. Last year, Sun spent $1 billion to acquire MySQL, and Oracle is planning to acquire Sun. Oracle is a world-renowned database vendor. It is widely believed that for the development of its own database, Oracle will gradually block MySQL.

At present, the European Commission has expressed its opposition to Oracle's acquisition of Sun, but in December it expressed its confidence in finding a satisfactory result. The European Union will announce its final decision in 27th day of this month. It is reported that Oracle is currently launching enterprise customers and asking the EU to support their acquisition of Sun. Enterprise support is crucial to the final decision of the EU. For this reason, comius also launched a signature campaign, decide to compete with Oracle.

Last year, sunius left Sun and started its own small database company Monty Program AB.