Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

From: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
Date: 2005-10-19 09:38:29
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0510190637010.18452@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>>> If there smart enough to be buying innobase these days, you can bet that
>>> by now they have this stuff all straightened out.
>>
>>
>> No, that doesn't seem to follow ... if Oracle are spending their
>> resources to attack MySQL rather than us, the conclusion would be that
>> they are clearly still more informed by "the buzz" than technical merit.
>
> With no disrespect to PostgreSQL, MySQL has 100x our downloads and
> installations...

Yeah, kids playing with toys. You can't imagine how many people I heard
have MySQL installed in there win98.

The bad thing is they addopt MySQL because they could have it installed
there. :-(

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