| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | Leonel Nunez <lnunez(at)enelserver(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>, "Randal L(dot) Schwartz" <merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" |
| Date: | 2006-02-14 17:04:33 |
| Message-ID: | 1139936673.22740.190.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:51, Leonel Nunez wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >
> >> Oracle purchases Sleepycat. From what I understand, BerkeleyDB was the
> >> "other" way that MySQL could have transactions if Oracle decided to
> >> restrict InnoDB tables (after purchasing Innobase last year).
> >
> > From what I read a few days ago, Oracle is negotiating with
> > Sleepycat, Zope
> > (is that the PHP developer's name?), and one other OSS developer.
> > Nothing is
> > yet signed, and they could all fall through.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>
> Zope is a Python framework
> Zend is for php
Also, given the license of PHP, which is NOT like the GPL, but much
closer to the BSD license, I doubt Oracle could manage to buy it and
kill it or hide it or whatever.
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