The founder of MySQL emailed for help in China

Dear Chinese signature supporter who saves MySQL,

The EU may not be able to save MySQL, and China and Russia may be the hope of saving MySQL. China has a strong, independent, and confident Anti-Monopoly Authority. Therefore, I am here to ask for your help. Thank you for your signature in the http://www.helpmysql.org/ru/petition. If you can:

(1) http://fldj.mofcom.gov.cn/index.shtml of the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce is the authority for anti-monopoly review of mergers and acquisitions, including the Anti-monopoly review of Oracle's acquisition of Sun microelectronics. If you are using MySQL, your comment will be very important for the review by the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce. We cannot give you detailed instructions on how to reflect the situation to the competent authority, because this is inappropriate. However, we believe that if you can tell the Competent Authority how your company uses MySQL (what project, what size, data traffic, and the number of users) and what impact do you think Oracle will have after purchasing MySQL. If you know that MySQL is a free alternative to expensive Oracle databases, it will be helpful to give an example to the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce. In particular, if you know or use MySQL as a bargaining chip or claim that MySQL will be used to request the Oracle database to reduce the price, please inform the Ministry of Commerce. We hope that you can directly write a letter to the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce by Fax 010-65198998. In view of the time constraints, we encourage you to call the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce at 010-65198680.

The Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce will protect MySQL and your interests as users, customers and consumers. During the communication with the Ministry of Commerce, please briefly and clearly describe what kind of help you need.
 
(2) thanks to the many people who have supported us like you, we have collected 650 signatures in China, please refer to: http://helpmysql.org/cn/stats. This is a good start. But a large country like China that supports open source should have more signatures. The problem may be that many may think this is a matter decided by the European Commission's review, and China may not be able to change anything. In fact, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce can make its own decision.
 
In China, there may be not many people who know about it, and news reports are limited, such as http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2010-01-04/21153736195.shtml. If you are interested, you can help us contact influential IT websites or magazines in China to inform them of this signature activity.
 
If more websites are involved, more people will sign the petition, although this is only the first step. Make sure that the article or website mentions helpmysql.org, or provide a linked http://helpmysql.org/cn/theissue/customerspaythebill

I would like to thank you for your help!
 
Michael Widenius
Creator of MySQL