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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced on January 27, 2010 that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. $7.4 billion deal was finally approved by European Union last week. Deal was already approved by U.S. Department of Justice in August, 2009. 

This deal give Oracle ownership of popular Java Programming Language, which run on more than a billion devices, Solaris Operating System, Open Source MySQL Database and SPARC processors.  

Java Developer community is worried with future of Java. Now it is directly IBM vs Oracle. Oracle has already bought BEA and is owner of Weblogic application server, now after Sun Acquisition, not sure what will be future of Glassfish Application Server and other Java based products from Sun.

MySQL community is also worried with the future of MySQL. Monty Widenius, the original author of the MySQL database server had resigned from Sun in Feb, 2009 but that was all together different story. You can read that story on Monty's blog post here.

MySQL is favorite database of Internet Start up companies including biggies like Google, Yahoo, FaceBook, Twitter etc. MySQL is result of hundreds of thousands hours of hard work by Open Source Developers. Oracle is leading RDBMS vendor and death of MySQL will bring more profit to Oracle.  Oracle has issue a public statement on December 14, 2009 with its commitment to Customers, Developers and Users of MySQL. More about that can be read here.

I hope oracle will keep its promise and keep Java and MySQL open and will provide finance for further development for these great products.