Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

fyi

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2006/jw-0227-iw-opensource.html

On 2/25/06, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 February 2006 18:45, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:29:32PM -0800, Chris Travers wrote:
> > > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > >On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> > > >>The Sleepycat purchase seems to be more of the no-brainer boxing
> > > >>MySQL into a corner.
> > > >
> > > >I'm not so much worried about MySQL as the other OSS that have used
> > > >Berkeley DB as its backend ... stuff like Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, Cyrus
> > > >SASL and sendmail come immediately to mind ... what 'alternatives' do
> > > >they have? I know in my case, we have PostgreSQL backing a large
> > > >portion of the stuff for Postfix/IMAP/SASL, but not everything has
> > > >been extended to allow for 'alternate backends' ... of course,
> nothing
> > > >really prevents that from happening if backed into a corner, but it
> > > >does create for potential disruption in the overall OSS community ;(
> > >
> > > But these don't have the problems that MySQL does. They can stay with
> > > older versions, build a community to fork BDB under a similar OSS-only
> > > license, etc.
> > >
> > > MySQL doesn't have that luxury because they have opted to go the
> > > dual-licensing way. In essence they are dependant on commercial
> > > agreements with Sleepycate, InnoDB, etc. to offer functionality to
> > > customers using their software with non-Free code.
> > >
> > > MySQL could still re-release the client libs LGPL of course and that
> > > might get them out of it but that would be a painful transition.
> >
> > Just in case anyone hasn't heard; MySQL bought 2 folks from Firebird:
> > http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
>
> You gotta spend that series c money somehow...
> http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2006_10.html
>
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> Robert Treat
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