Re: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Rafael Martinez a écrit :
> ".... The Commission's investigation showed that another open source
> database, PostgreSQL, is considered by many database users to be a
> credible alternative to MySQL and could be expected to replace to some
> extent the competitive force currently exerted by MySQL on the database
> market ....."
>
> Ref:http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/40&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
>


Sounds like a syllogism to me :

 (A) There should be alternatives to Oracle
 and (B) PostgreSQL is a credible alternative to MySQL
 So (C) Oracle can buy MySQL