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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by andr on Monday April 20, 2009 @08:07AM (#570514)
Oracle owns InnoDB and Sleepycat/BerkeleyDB, both of which are in active development. InnoDB is also MySQL's most popular storage engine. So I wouldn't fear for MySQL's future. It wasn't doing well in Sun anyways.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @08:53AM (#570581)
Now MySQL doesn't have to implement a new engine to replace InnoDB (their previous motivation for the new engine was to keep control of it away from Oracle).
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by Keyframe on Monday April 20, 2009 @09:47AM (#570662)
And now they will have to implement a whole new company. Sigh, I want to feel optimistic about this buyout, but somehow I don't.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:09AM (#570699)
Monty already left Sun last month to start his own fork of MySQL.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by staunch on Monday April 20, 2009 @12:36PM (#570965)
The Open Source golden parachute.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @01:36PM (#571072)
Let's wait and see if he actually makes any money before we call it "golden".
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by jonknee on Monday April 20, 2009 @02:48PM (#571174)
I think the billion dollar exit and then quick departure would be the referenced golden parachute.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by pbz on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:06PM (#571786)
OurSQL?
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