Re: Oracle buys Innobase

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> 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?
>

One big issue is that MS has the DOJ watching over it, as the DOJ did to
IBM when the PC came out. Oracle doesn't have that oversight, meaning
that the database market is more aggressive.

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> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:
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> > From:
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> > Valiant: Come on. Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.
> > Doom: Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it.
> >
> > 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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> > On 10/7/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
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> > First thing that comes to my mind is that Oracle is setting the stage to buy them out.
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