[Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun

[Rayson Ho]

In fact there not a lot of benefit for Oracle to end MySQL R&D.

Monty (Michael Widenius), one of the founders of MySQL AB, left Sun in
Feb 2009. He forked MySQL and founded MariaDB. With some portion of
the $1B Sun paid for the MySQL acquisition in his pocket, he can grow
the company and get many of the existing MySQL customers if Oracle
kills of MySQL.

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-be-free-or-not-to-be-free.html

Rayson



On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Chris Samuel <csamuel at vpac.org> wrote:
>> Except when it comes to RDBMS.
>
> Allegedly..
>
> # MySQL will be an addition to Oracle’s existing suite
> # of database products, which already includes Oracle
> # Database 11g, TimesTen, Berkeley DB open source
> # database, and the open source transactional storage
> # engine, InnoDB.
>
> According to http://www.oracle.com/sun/sun-faq.pdf
>
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