Re: Oracle buys Innobase

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> 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?

They are not... too many competitors... MS suffers because they are 98% 
of the desktop.
Oracle isn't even close to 98% of the database market.

>
> 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.
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>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
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>> On 10/7/05, Jim C. Nasby  wrote:
>> http://lnk.nu/prnewswire.com/4dv.pl
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>> First thing that comes to my mind is that Oracle is setting the stage 
>> to buy them out.
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