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

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:51, Leonel Nunez wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Also, given the license of PHP, which is NOT like the GPL, but much
>> closer to the BSD license, I doubt Oracle could manage to buy it and
>> kill it or hide it or whatever.
>
> 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 ...
>
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Why not replace the whole of PHP/mySQL with Whitebeam(unashamed plug)/PostgreSQL,
have a complete BSD licensed solution and avoid all this uncertainty :-) ?

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