MySQL Founder Writes to EU Regarding Sun-Oracle Merger
Urges Swift Approval to Ensure Database Market Remains Competitive 
Former CEO of MySQL Marten Mickos has written a letter of appeal to Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s competition commissioner, urging that Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun be approved for the good of the market and MySQL. “Every new day of uncertainty is potentially very harmful to the various businesses of Sun, reducing competition in the market,” Mickos writes. “A delay in the closing of this transaction is therefore only going to work against the respectable goal that you set out to achieve when launching the probe into this acquisition.”
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