Richard_D_Levine@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > What is Oracle after? Small DB technology? They already have rdb. > Firebird, back in the Groton Database Corporation days, was built to be > compatible with rdb. Marrying those technologies through modification of > existing gateways makes more technological sense than InnoDB. > > Oracle is trying for market share, as they always do, but it appears ill > conceived. MySQL is for people who can't or won't tune and manage a DBMS. > Oracle products are just not going to fit. Both on price and complexity. > If they kill MySQL, they are just going to increase other true FOSS RDBMS > projects' market share. Power to them. Oracle must know that the comodity database days are coming. By attacking MySQL they delay that time by another few quarters, perhaps. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
