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

From: merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L(dot) Schwartz)
To: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB?
Date: 2006-02-14 16:16:24
Message-ID: 86slqldig7.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com
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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?

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