Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

The world rejoiced as kaare@jasonic.dk (Kaare Rasmussen) wrote:
>> - Perl users usually depend on DBI; an "attack" on DBI could make
>>   PostgreSQL "less usable" for them.
>
> How do you see an attack on DBI could be possible? AFAIK DBI has the same
> license as Perl, is released on CPAN and i behaving like any other CPAN
> module.

If Oracle hired off all the people that have worked on the DBI
implementation, that would make it troublesome for a team to emerge to
continue to support it.  There would be a "learning curve" period, at
the very least...
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