merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > 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). > Does this mean the other shoe has dropped for MySQL AB? The deal's not gone through yet, but it sure does look like they want to put a hammerlock on MySQL ... regards, tom lane