Oracle buys Sun

Person, Roderick personrp at UPMC.EDU
Wed Apr 22 12:14:43 UTC 2009


>From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan at langille.org] 

>Person, Roderick wrote:
>> From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source 
>> (and not a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are making money of it... I don't think they will give something back to open source community but... we'll see...
> 
>> Doesn't Oracle own Postgres Db? I would think that would have something to do with what they do with MySQL or vice versa.

>Hell no.

>There's nothing to buy.  We like it like that.

Sorry, I got confused with the IBM funding of PostgresSQL.





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