Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
> Consider what happened to Stak verse MS. Stak won the court case
> but still went out of business.

My point exactly ;)

Cheers,
D
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Fetter [mailto:david(at)fetter(dot)org]
> > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:17 AM
> > To: Marc G. Fournier
> > Cc: Dann Corbit; snacktime; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:47:31PM -0300, 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?
> >
> > It may well be, but somebody would have sue, and then they would have
> > to win against Oracle. I don't think that MySQL AB has the resources
> > to fight such a legal action, even assuming they'd win it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > D
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