On 10/7/05, Philip Hallstrom <postgresql@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But no, Mark, I'm not worried by the FUD. It just means there's nothing > > real for them to throw at PostgreSQL. > > This just appeared on slashdot... > > MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/1224213&from=rss > > From the linked article... > > http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=9231B8BD-3788-4DB2-B85F-707E75857B58 > > While new entrants into the open source database market, such as > EnterpriseDB and Pervasive Software, have made no secret of their > intentions to chase Oracle's market share, Mr Mickos said MySQL is happy > to leave them to it. > > "We are thankful that they are there to define the market, there is no > product if you're the only vendor," he said. "Pervasive and EnterpriseDB > are going up against Oracle. We don't want to be in that space, we don't > want to take the heat from Oracle. If you're working in a zoo you don't > want to be the one who has to brush the teeth of the lion." And this just in (via another post on this list): http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-07-2005/0004163873&EDATE= http://www.oracle.com/innodb/index.html Oracle acquires Innobase, which is the company behind the InnoDB table bit of MySQL, i.e. the engine with the foreign keys, transactions and all that. Is there a shortage of lion toothpaste in Sweden or something? Ian Barwick ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
