| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Thomas Beutin <tb(at)laokoon(dot)in-berlin(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-16 05:28:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20051016022737.Q1477@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>>
>>> This is what Lubet, former Oracle sales mistress, has
>>> to say about that: "I'm pretty sure, as an ex-Oracle
>>> employee, that the sentence in the release about
>>> 'We'll certainly be happy to renew the contract,' that
>>> it was written by Larry and that he was laughing out
>>> loud as he [dictated it]."
>>
>> Maybe they lost the development of the know how for the only transaction
>> safe table type of the current mysql releases, but they still "own" the
>> former Adabas/MaxDB/SAP-DB code with transaction safe tables. Probably they
>> force the "union" of mysql and SAP-DB code base to keep their transaction
>> competence, but this are just my €0,02...
>
>
> They do not "own" MaxDB. They license it, just like Innodb.
Damn, do they ever have alot of "loose ends" ... what part, exactly,
constitutes "MySQL" vs third party add ons? :)
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