[csw-maintainers] oracle buys sun ...

[rupert THURNER]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:51, Ihsan Dogan <ihsan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
you mean http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB, foundet by the
founder of mysql, michael widenius?