Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, nhrcommu(at)rochester(dot)rr(dot)com
Subject: Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and
Date: 2006-02-11 01:22:42
Message-ID: 200602101722.43191.josh@agliodbs.com
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Bruce,

> Could Oracle modify PHP and JBoss so they work poorly with open source
> databases?

Sure. However, their communities can also fork them. That's unlikely with
JBoss which is corporate, but PHP is pretty close to forking already. If
Zend+Oracle tries to lock out MySQL from PHP, you'll see a fork real fast.

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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