Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

From: Leonel Nunez <lnunez(at)enelserver(dot)com>
To: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
Cc: "Randal L(dot) Schwartz" <merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"
Date: 2006-02-14 16:51:30
Message-ID: 43F20A92.2090903@enelserver.com
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> From what I read a few days ago, Oracle is negotiating with
> Sleepycat, Zope
> (is that the PHP developer's name?), and one other OSS developer.
> Nothing is
> yet signed, and they could all fall through.
>
> Rich
>

Zope is a Python framework
Zend is for php

leonel

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