EU clears Oracle + Sun: If MySQL fails, there\'s always PostgreSQL (BetaNews)

In green-lighting Oracle\'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems today, the European Commission says it considered whether in doing so, Oracle would effectively eliminate the \"competitive constraint\" of competition from the open source field by way of MySQL, the open source relational database that Sun acquired in 2008 . That acquisition gave Sun its first competitive database product; but ...