Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB?

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 01:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> > Oracle purchases Sleepycat. From what I understand, BerkeleyDB was the
> > "other" way that MySQL could have transactions if Oracle decided to
> > restrict InnoDB tables (after purchasing Innobase last year).
> >
> > Does this mean the other shoe has dropped for MySQL AB?
>
> The deal's not gone through yet, but it sure does look like they want to
> put a hammerlock on MySQL ...

Is it possible that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL to kill off other open
source competitor, e.g. PostgreSQL? MySQL has a strong number of users and
therefore it is a good deal for Oracle to buy MySQL. Then by doing that,
Oracle will market MySQL as the low-end alternative to their own database to
give a full solution to the customer. And this would slow down the take up
rate for other database competitor.

I just hope not....

Regards,

Leonard Soetedjo