[csw-maintainers] oracle buys sun ...

[Ihsan Dogan]

Am 21.4.2009 18:11 Uhr, rupert THURNER 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?

Yes. I just couldn't remember the name anymore.


Ihsan

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