Re: Oracle buys Innobase

I think it kind of depends on how they treat with MySQL. If they expect
MySQL to pay them $10,000 per installation, and MySQL was paying Heiki
$100 per installation, then that would be predatory. OTOH, if they
charge the same rate, or some small incremental increase over what
innobase charges now, then I'd say no harm no foul.

Of course, knowing Oracle, they might want MySQL to pay by the CPU /
power rating, etc... Licensing could be the same basic cost it is now,
but with so much paper work and documentation so as to be a nightmare.

I'm just glad PostgreSQL isn't beholden to licensed / patented software
to get the job done...

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:47, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Stupid question here, but how susceptible is Oracle to "monopolistic
> practices", similar to what M$ is going through with the DoJ in the US?
> This seems to be *very* close to the line, if it isn't over it ... no?
>
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:
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> > From:
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> > Valiant: Come on. Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.
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> > I don't think Oracle has any interest in InnoDB other than to pull the rug out from under the commercial version of MySQL. Ranks right up there with MS's gutting of STAK and Sun's claim of language ownership for Java.
> > IMO-YMMV.
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