Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:

> On 10/8/2005 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Jan Wieck wrote:
>>> To have a really good position when talking to Oracle, MySQL will need to
>>> brush up on the BDB support, and that pretty quick.
>>
>> What about the patents InnoDB might hold? It would be easier to enforce
>> a patent based on the fact that they are using code actually developed
>> by the patent holder.
>
> That too.
>
> What strikes me a little odd is how brief the responses from the MySQL side
> are. Marten Mickos welcomes them, does some 2 sentence handwaving about
> licensing and the glorious freedom of open source, and then the rest of the
> statement is the usual blah blah about MySQL that you find in every other
> press release.
>
> It almost seems as if MySQL wasn't exactly prepared for this deal to come
> through - or worse, that they are surprised about it. Although I can't
> believe they wouldn't have known about it in advance.

Or, they knew about it and have some sort of contigency plan already in
place for when the license does expire ... ?

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