Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

[Steve Manes <smanes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> As of this moment, if Oracle buys Zend, they could effectively kill PHP 
> ... the core engine that PHP is built around is a Zend engine, so if 
> they were to revoke the license for that, PHP would be dead ... kinda 
> like MySQL with InnoDB ... now, there was talk at one point time with 
> replacying that engine with Parrot, so I'm not sure how hard/long it 
> would take for them to do so if Zend got pulled out from under them ...

FWIW, I know that Yahoo began quietly (though not quietly enough, 
obviously) organizing an Open PHP dev group a couple of years ago with 
the purpose of replacing the proprietary Zend engine.