Joshua D. Drake wrote:
[Ron Mayer wrote]
...Oracle...recognized...solid database engineers with
a product with a growing customer base...
...made sense from both a recruiting and a
business growth opportunity to acquire them.
Oracle isn't interested in the 395.00 market.
I think it's the larger MySQL customers (US Census Department, etc)
that they are interested in.
If the Census Department needs to look outside Oracle for low-end
databases, that opens the door to Access / SQL-Server / etc - which
really is a threat to Oracle.
On the other hand, if the Census Department can get all of their
database needs from Oracle, it's a much safer world for Oracle Corp.
On those grounds I could certainly see Oracle buying successful
postgresql-based companies -- again, for both the talented people
and the proven market for those products.
For people maybe, but they really don't need the database.
Not the database itself, as much as the business knowledge of
how to sell low-end databases.
MySQL has a nice set of reference customers (MySQL AB's claims
include Google, US Census Bureau, Yahoo, Sabre, CERN, NASA, Associated
Press, Macys, Cox, Cable&Wireless, Nokia, Cisco, Sony, etc) - along
with a proven business structure (combination of product + marketing)
that appeals enough to those customers to buy it. Sure, Oracle was
probably in 90% of those places anyway - but clearly those existing
customeres saw the need for a low-end database that wasn't covered
by Oracle's existing offerings. Even if Oracle gets little revenue
from the low-end-DB-sales to those guys; if it keeps integration
between the Census Department's MySQL databases and Oracle-Expensive
working reliably, it's worth doing.
I'd suspect that any single postgresql-support company that had a
similar customer list would get offers from Oracle as well
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