| From: | Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Cornelia Boenigk <poppcorn(at)cornelia-boenigk(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and |
| Date: | 2006-02-12 22:21:47 |
| Message-ID: | 87lkwgb4lg.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de |
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* Marc G. Fournier:
> according to FreeBSD ports:
>
> subversion uses it
> openldap server uses it
And the latter is really crucial and they could hardly switch to
anything else without losing credibility.
Sleepycat also has got an impressive customer list:
<http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/customerlist.html>
Most of these companies already have to deal with Oracle, though. 8-/
> So, if you are going to be "concerned" about any of Oracle's
> acquisitions, one should just look at their own desktop/servers to see
> how much the SleepyCat one will potentially affect them :(
I'm running a custom-written database on top of Berkeley DB (which I
plan to migrate to PostgreSQL for the sake of ad-hoc queries), and I'm
not *that* concerned. I'm using Sleepycat's copyleft licensing
option, and nobody can take that copy away from me. Your mail servers
are probably similar: the copyleft license you already have is good
enough.
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