On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 21:58 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > >> Daevid Vincent wrote: >> > http://tokutek.com/2010/04/tokutek-acquires-oracle/ >> > >> > April 1, 2010, Totutek, Inc., announced the acquisition of Oracle >> > Corporation. "Tokutek has long been a supporter of open-source software" >> > said John Partridge, CEO of Tokutek. "Oracle is an innovative small company >> > the develops database front ends such as MySQL. Tokutek intends to continue >> > developing the MySQL technology and expand our commitment to open-soure >> > software." Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's role has not been determined. Other >> > than a statement that the transaction is an all-stock transaction, terms of >> > the transaction were not disclosed. >> > >> > http://planet.mysql.com/ >> > >> >> but sadly.. >> >> "Tokutek's acquisitions of Oracle, Apple, HP, Microsoft and Google were >> today blocked by the European Union on the basis that the announced >> acquisitions were 'in bad taste'. " >> >> http://tokutek.com/2010/04/tokuteks-acquisitions-blocked-by-eu/ >> >> shame >> > > > An April fools? It looks decidedly odd... > > Speaking of which, has anyone checked out Googles new Animal > Translate? :p > BTW, did you know that laptop can fly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwhrJirgp0 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
