Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Bruce,
>>
>>> Could Oracle modify PHP and JBoss so they work poorly with open source
>>> databases?
>>
>> Sure.  However, their communities can also fork them.  That's unlikely with
>> JBoss which is corporate, but PHP is pretty close to forking already.   If
>> Zend+Oracle tries to lock out MySQL from PHP, you'll see a fork real fast.
>
> OK, more realistic question.  What if Oracle creates something like
> AJAX, which works with PHP/JBoss, and Oracle, but not with other
> databases because those other databases don't have the hooks?  They are
> not removing functionality, but adding Oracle-specific stuff.

Then nobody that uses an OSS database will adopt it ... ?


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