On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:51, Leonel Nunez wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > >> Oracle purchases Sleepycat. From what I understand, BerkeleyDB was the > >> "other" way that MySQL could have transactions if Oracle decided to > >> restrict InnoDB tables (after purchasing Innobase last year). > > > > From what I read a few days ago, Oracle is negotiating with > > Sleepycat, Zope > > (is that the PHP developer's name?), and one other OSS developer. > > Nothing is > > yet signed, and they could all fall through. > > > > Rich > > > > Zope is a Python framework > Zend is for php Also, given the license of PHP, which is NOT like the GPL, but much closer to the BSD license, I doubt Oracle could manage to buy it and kill it or hide it or whatever.
