Re: Oracle buys Innobase

Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com wrote:
> What is Oracle after?  Small DB technology?  They already have rdb.
> Firebird, back in the Groton Database Corporation days, was built to be
> compatible with rdb.  Marrying those technologies through modification of
> existing gateways makes more technological sense than InnoDB.
>
> Oracle is trying for market share, as they always do, but it appears ill
> conceived.  MySQL is for people who can't or won't tune and manage a DBMS.
> Oracle products are just not going to fit.  Both on price and complexity.
> If they kill MySQL, they are just going to increase other true FOSS RDBMS
> projects' market share.  Power to them.

Oracle must know that the comodity database days are coming.  By
attacking MySQL they delay that time by another few quarters, perhaps.

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