| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, nhrcommu(at)rochester(dot)rr(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and |
| Date: | 2006-02-11 13:50:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20060211094957.J6751@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Bruce,
>>
>>> Could Oracle modify PHP and JBoss so they work poorly with open source
>>> databases?
>>
>> Sure. However, their communities can also fork them. That's unlikely with
>> JBoss which is corporate, but PHP is pretty close to forking already. If
>> Zend+Oracle tries to lock out MySQL from PHP, you'll see a fork real fast.
>
> OK, more realistic question. What if Oracle creates something like
> AJAX, which works with PHP/JBoss, and Oracle, but not with other
> databases because those other databases don't have the hooks? They are
> not removing functionality, but adding Oracle-specific stuff.
Then nobody that uses an OSS database will adopt it ... ?
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