Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
Date: 2005-10-19 02:55:22
Message-ID: 4355B59A.7050107@familyhealth.com.au
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>>If there smart enough to
>>be buying innobase these days, you can bet that by now they have this stuff
>>all straightened out.
>
>
> No, that doesn't seem to follow ... if Oracle are spending their
> resources to attack MySQL rather than us, the conclusion would be that
> they are clearly still more informed by "the buzz" than technical merit.

With no disrespect to PostgreSQL, MySQL has 100x our downloads and
installations...

Oracle is simply going after by far the biggest open source database
player...

Chris

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