Re: Oracle buys Innobase

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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> 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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