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Oracle May Spin MySQL to Win EU Okay for Sun Deal, Analyst Says

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on September 15, 2009 at 4:45 am PT

In order to win European Union regulatory approval for the pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle may need to spin-off or sell Sun’s MySQL open-source database business, according to analyst Trip Chowdhry, of Global Equities Research.