| From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-18 15:07:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20051018150752.GD3441@phlogiston.dyndns.org |
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:09:59PM -0400, Robert Bernier wrote:
> In canada we have a thing called the competition bureau, a company
> is not allowed to buy another company if its to reduce competition
Yes. Like Air Canada and Canadian Air. . . oops. Wait.
It's a bureaucratic leap, for sure, but if the target company is in
sufficiently bad straits, nobody will stop it. Being unable to
control your central technology might well qualify.
A
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Andrew Sullivan | ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca
I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what
you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now.
--J.D. Baldwin
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