Leonard Soetedjo wrote: > 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. MySQL already has major funding. I don't see how it could get worse for us if Oracle bought them. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
