[csw-maintainers] oracle buys sun ...

[Ihsan Dogan]

Am 20.4.2009 15:58 Uhr, Philip Brown schrieb:

>> wow ... that was unexpected.
> 
> not really. our local unix users' group speculated oracle was the next one
> in line, as soon as the IBM deal dropped out :-)

I was expecting, that Fujitsu would buy Sun.

> and it's a much better fit than IBM.

Much better.

> on the darker side, oracle now "owns" both berkeleydb and mysql.

Sun screwed up MySQL already. A few MySQL people founded already a new
company to go on with the MySQL development, so I think, it really does
not matter what Oracle is going to do with MySQL.



Ihsan

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