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Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB?

From:	Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To:	merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L(dot) Schwartz)
Cc:	Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject:	Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB?
Date:	2006-02-14 17:38:31
Message-ID:	19780.1139938711@sss.pgh.pa.us
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merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> 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).

> Does this mean the other shoe has dropped for MySQL AB?

The deal's not gone through yet, but it sure does look like they want to
put a hammerlock on MySQL ...

regards, tom lane

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Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB? at 2006-02-14 16:16:24 from Randal L. Schwartz

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Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" at 2006-02-14 17:52:29 from Steve Wampler
I see this as the end of BDB in MySQL without a doubt. at 2006-02-15 17:05:26 from Chad
Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB? at 2006-02-16 01:42:28 from Leonard Soetedjo

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