Re: [Nolug] world ends, MySQL bought by SUN

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Friedrich Gurtler wrote:

>> *Horrible*? No. It would have been horrible if Oracle bought MySQL.

> Oracle evidently was satisfied with just buying the InnoDB storage engine,
> and didn't need the whole thing. =P

I believe it was a reference to Oracle buying Bea for 8.5 billion today.
Go Larry!

AFAIK, Mysql has a contract with Oracle/Innobase to distribute InnoDB with
Mysql. It'll be interesting to see if this relationship continues now
that Sun owns Mysql.

ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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