Oracle buys Sun

[pete wright]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:

>  > Maybe it's going to be the opposite, maybe Oracle will continue with the
>  > development of MySQL and apply some Oracle 'features' to MySQL...
>
> By the way, I recommend to read the press release (if you
> haven't done so yet):
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363
>
> MySQL doesn't fit in that picture at all.  So there are
> several possibilities for Oracle:
>
>  - Drop MySQL.  That would be a mistake, because they would
>   lose the low-cost market:  Somebody else will pick it up
>   and continue development -- it's GPL after all.
>
+1

>  - Merge Oracle DB with MySQL, or add features from Oracle DB
>   to MySQL.  This doesn't make sense at all (apart from the
>   fact that it would cause licensing problems).  Why would
>   they want to do that?  That would weaken the position of
>   the Oracle DB.

mysql is not even in the same universe of ORA IMHO.  it's not even on
the radar of most sites that run oracle - atleast for key business
processes.

>
>  - Don't change anything regarding MySQL, and let the MySQL
>   development group continue to do their work.
>

probably what is going to happen.  i reckon oracle wanted a low-end
offering so people could augment their oracle installs with mysql and
still give support dollars to oracle.  thats were the money is -
support.


-p

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