Stupid question here, but how susceptible is Oracle to "monopolistic practices", similar to what M$ is going through with the DoJ in the US? This seems to be *very* close to the line, if it isn't over it ... no?
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:
From: http://www.filmsite.org/whof4.html Valiant: Come on. Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel. Doom: Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it. I don't think Oracle has any interest in InnoDB other than to pull the rug out from under the commercial version of MySQL. Ranks right up there with MS's gutting of STAK and Sun's claim of language ownership for Java. IMO-YMMV. ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of snacktime Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:14 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase On 10/7/05, Jim C. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://lnk.nu/prnewswire.com/4dv.pl -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster First thing that comes to my mind is that Oracle is setting the stage to buy them out. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
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