Hello, on 04/20/2009 10:57 PM Raymond Irving said the following: > Ok, Sun buys MySQL and now Oracle is planning on buying Sun. Who's going to buy Oracle in a few years from now? > > Maybe it's time the PHP dev team start thinking about supporting a database side project of their own. I would do well to have an open source database engine that integrates well with the system under contact development. The PHP group already did that. They pushed SQLite when MySQL started GPL'ing the MySQL client libraries. Then MySQL had to open an exception for inclusion of MySQL client libraries in Open Source projects like PHP. > So what about the other technologies? What about NetBeans, VirtualBox and Java? Will Oracle destroy a good thing? Or will they continue to support Open Source. > > I'm not too sure what they will do but I somehow have this feeling that a lot will change. It might not be business as usual. Nah, Oracle will just charge money for somethings that were going to be free in MySQL 6 like the online backup support of the Falcon engine. ;-( Oracle also bought INNODB which provides online backup but it costs money. That is business as usual, I am afraid. PostgreSQL people are celebrating as they always had a lot of envy of MySQL success. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
