Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Stupid question here, but how susceptible is Oracle to "monopolistic
practices", similar to what M$ is going through with the DoJ in the
US? This seems to be *very* close to the line, if it isn't over it ...
no?
They are not... too many competitors... MS suffers because they are 98%
of the desktop.
Oracle isn't even close to 98% of the database market.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:
From:
http://www.filmsite.org/whof4.html
Valiant: Come on. Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they
can take the Red Car for a nickel.
Doom: Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red
Car so I could dismantle it.
I don't think Oracle has any interest in InnoDB other than to pull
the rug out from under the commercial version of MySQL. Ranks right
up there with MS's gutting of STAK and Sun's claim of language
ownership for Java.
IMO-YMMV.
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