| From: | Oisin Glynn <me(at)oisinglynn(dot)com> |
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| To: | Steve Manes <smanes(at)magpie(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" |
| Date: | 2006-02-15 15:44:49 |
| Message-ID: | 43F34C71.2090104@oisinglynn.com |
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Steve Manes wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> As of this moment, if Oracle buys Zend, they could effectively kill
>> PHP ... the core engine that PHP is built around is a Zend engine, so
>> if they were to revoke the license for that, PHP would be dead ...
>> kinda like MySQL with InnoDB ... now, there was talk at one point
>> time with replacying that engine with Parrot, so I'm not sure how
>> hard/long it would take for them to do so if Zend got pulled out from
>> under them ...
>
> FWIW, I know that Yahoo began quietly (though not quietly enough,
> obviously) organizing an Open PHP dev group a couple of years ago with
> the purpose of replacing the proprietary Zend engine.
>
>
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> TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
A secret Open group I like it!
Sorry for spamming I couldn't resist,
Oisin
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