Re: Oracle buys Innobase

CSN wrote:
> There are some articles on eweek about this:
>
> Oracle Finds the Flaw in MySQL's Business Plan
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1869989,00.asp
>
> "This is what Oracle says in its release: "InnoDB's
> contractual relationship with MySQL comes up for
> renewal next year. Oracle fully expects to negotiate
> an extension of that relationship."
>
> This is what Lubet, former Oracle sales mistress, has
> to say about that: "I'm pretty sure, as an ex-Oracle
> employee, that the sentence in the release about
> 'We'll certainly be happy to renew the contract,' that
> it was written by Larry and that he was laughing out
> loud as he [dictated it]."
Maybe they lost the development of the know how for the only transaction
safe table type of the current mysql releases, but they still "own" the
former Adabas/MaxDB/SAP-DB code with transaction safe tables. Probably
they force the "union" of mysql and SAP-DB code base to keep their
transaction competence, but this are just my €0,02...

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