| From: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Randal L(dot) Schwartz" <merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" |
| Date: | 2006-02-14 16:32:00 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.63.0602140830400.1086@salmo.appl-ecosys.com |
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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
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