| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Beutin <tb(at)laokoon(dot)in-berlin(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-15 14:59:50 |
| Message-ID: | 43511966.5050306@commandprompt.com |
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>>
>> 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.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Greetings from Berlin,
> -tb
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