WHAT IS HAPPENING - Ten of the top 20 retailers, including Amazon, eBay, and Wal-Mart, depend on Sun systems for critical business operations. Sun’s total customer base is made up by 10% retail customers. Currently software giant Oracle is in negotiations to purchase Sun Microsystems but have reached a snag. While the deal was approved by the US the European Commission as halted the deal on grounds of antitrust laws. The problem is with Oracle obtaining MySQL. With this speed bump Oracle, Sun and MySQL customers are not being served well. MySQL is a SQL based relational database management system that can be utilized as an inventory retail system. Given that MySQL is an open-source alternative it is possible that Oracle may not support it.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU? MySQL is currently free, performs very well and tends to be embedded in packages. Often retailers may not even know where it is.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? Check with someone in your IT department to see what runtime licenses you have running in your ancillary applications. If you have MySQL then you need to be aware that you might find yourself paying a royalty in the future.
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