Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

Leonard Soetedjo wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 February 2006 01:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> > merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (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.

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