On Wednesday 15 February 2006 01:38, Tom Lane wrote: > 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 ... Is it possible that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL to kill off other open source competitor, e.g. PostgreSQL? MySQL has a strong number of users and therefore it is a good deal for Oracle to buy MySQL. Then by doing that, Oracle will market MySQL as the low-end alternative to their own database to give a full solution to the customer. And this would slow down the take up rate for other database competitor. I just hope not.... Regards, Leonard Soetedjo
