EU clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Oracle has zero incentive to destroy part of a company they have acquired. Oracle makes money on support. What Widenus really fears is that Oracle will come in with real support options and the MariaDB company will die because he can't match their support offerings and he won't be able to sell commercial licenses against it. This campaign has never been about FOSS, it's been about the commercial ecosystem while claiming to be about FOSS. We saw the same thing on LWN when Monty's supports gave all the reasons this will hurt the commercial MySQL ecosystem while claiming this is a FOSS issue.

I actually expect that Oracle will spend far more money on MySQL than SUN ever did. This is a perfect product for them to up sell and sell support on. Sure it's probably going to put a lot of little businesses with commercial MySQL offerings out of business in five years as they turn to providing the capability in house but I don't see that as a bad thing. Contrary to the MySQL employees claims the commercial ecosystem isn't needed for the FOSS portion to survive.