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Oracle bought Innodb and Sleepycat to kill them.
It's pretty clear.
Posted by: krehbiel   Posted on: 02/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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is Oracle buying the competition?  Linux Geek | 02/14/06
This is a VERY interesting question. All eyes are on Oracle now.  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
A bit off the mark  billywill | 02/14/06
You forget the MySQL license model. They must be able to offer comercial  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Commercial licensing is no problem  krehbiel | 02/14/06
Fortunately, Innodb is still GPL  krehbiel | 02/14/06
True, Inno is still GPL, but MySQL can't sell commercial licenses.  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Oracle bought Innodb and Sleepycat to kill them.  krehbiel | 02/14/06
Well, people are going to wise up and only use components that can't be  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
I had thought about using SleepyCat for a data store in one of my projects,  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Looks like open source is the new shareware  ordaj@... | 02/14/06
Presure for this from US based Governement Agencies  mighetto | 02/14/06
Biting off nose to spite face...  techboy_z | 02/14/06
WISE UP Indeed! In Ellison's Own words  John Zern | 02/14/06

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