| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>, Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems |
| Date: | 2010-01-22 20:20:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20100122202016.GA3959@alvh.no-ip.org |
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David Fetter escribió:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:37 PM, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
> > > Sounds like a syllogism to me :
> > >
> > > (A) There should be alternatives to Oracle and (B) PostgreSQL is
> > > a credible alternative to MySQL So (C) Oracle can buy MySQL
> Now as to whether MySQL would be a "credible alternative" to
> PostgreSQL...well, only one person I've talked with who's ever worked
> there has said anything of the kind, and he was in sales, and it was
> 2002.
I think "being a credible alternative" is not commutative, so I see no
problem here.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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