On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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.
I think that Leonards point here is that if Oracle were to acquire them
and market MySQL as 'the low-end alternative', that they have a huge
marketing budget that they could bring to bear on this ... one that I
imagine makes MySQL's look like pocket change ...
Greatbridge had "major funding", and succeeded in burning it off in, what,
12 months?
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