Re: users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-09 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Walt, On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 13:19, Walt Weaver wrote: > Well, forgive me for being a bit skeptical and cynical but this sounds like > spin to me. > > As a 17-year Oracle DBA I have never seen Oracle do anything that can > remotely be called benevolent. Larry Ellison buys companies, guts them,

Re: users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-07 Thread Ware Adams
On Oct 7, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Walt Weaver wrote: Well, forgive me for being a bit skeptical and cynical but this sounds like spin to me. As a 17-year Oracle DBA I have never seen Oracle do anything that can remotely be called benevolent. Larry Ellison buys companie

Re: users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-07 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Walt Weaver wrote: Well, forgive me for being a bit skeptical and cynical but this sounds like spin to me. As a 17-year Oracle DBA I have never seen Oracle do anything that can remotely be called benevolent. Larry Ellison buys companies, guts them, chews them up and spits them in the gutter. I d

Re: users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-07 Thread Walt Weaver
Well, forgive me for being a bit skeptical and cynical but this sounds like spin to me. As a 17-year Oracle DBA I have never seen Oracle do anything that can remotely be called benevolent. Larry Ellison buys companies, guts them, chews them up and spits them in the gutter. I doubt he'll ever buy a

Re: users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-07 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Hassan, On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 08:25, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > FYI, from the Silicon Valley Business Journal: See Kaj's response in the announce list (http://lists.mysql.com/announce/322) and the official MySQL AB response (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_968.html). Other re

Re: users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-07 Thread clint lenard
Interesting On 10/7/05, Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, from the Silicon Valley Business Journal: > > > Oracle buys Finnish open source company > > Oracle Corp. said Friday it has bought Innobase OY, a software company > based in Finland, for an undisclosed price. > > Innobase m

users are always the last to know :-)

2005-10-07 Thread Hassan Schroeder
FYI, from the Silicon Valley Business Journal: Oracle buys Finnish open source company Oracle Corp. said Friday it has bought Innobase OY, a software company based in Finland, for an undisclosed price. Innobase makes open source database software. Its product, InnoDB, runs on the MySQL database