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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by hapless on Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:27PM (#815978)
Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB. MySQL AB, the independent firm, never owned the core technology upon which their product depended. Oracle has had a death grip on MySQL for years.

Sun also had a competing product at the time of their MySQL AB acquisition: Their Postgresql consulting/support group. Nothing happened to it when they bought MySQL AB. Large companies can sustain heterogeny.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by berntb on Thursday September 10, 2009 @05:24PM (#816231)
>>Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB

I don't keep us as well as I should.

Falcon seemed like the upcoming champion (the ideas seemed relevant for modern systems) and I thought it ought to be a good/better substitute for InnoDB.

It didn't work well enough?

I guess it is just an academic question, now.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by hapless on Thursday October 01, 2009 @04:45PM (#855786)
Falcon was only started in order to counter this threat. It would have been several more years for it to gain traction.

Now that it's all under the same roof, it's moot.

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