The rumor wrt to buying sleepycat is true. http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/sleepycat.html --elein On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:32:00AM -0800, 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 > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of "Quantifying > Environmental > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy > Logic" > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: > 503-667-8863 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match >
