Others have expressed elsewhere that the EU has a sentimental (and non-objective) attachment to MySQL -- and the MySQL brand as opposed to perfectly good forks thereof.
MySQL has European origins -- PostgreSQL has origins in the US. I think unfortunately it may be that simple for the folk making these decisions. -- Jess Holle Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > Bjorn Monnens wrote: > >> Does anybody know what happens with the price if Oracle has to drop >> mysql? If you pay 7.4 billion and a part of the revenue comes from a >> product you have to drop, shouldn't somebody be paying the money you >> lose? >> > I'm not expert here, but I presume Oracle would just sell mysql to > something else (or force Sun to sell it before finalizing the buy) and > get the money from the operation. > > In the meantime, I back the points, that I've already expressed, by Jess > and Sean. I'd add that MySQL is not the only FLOSS and reputable > database on the market. There's Postgresql too, and thus even if (I > repeat if) the EU concerns about MySQL's fate were correct, this > wouldn't automatically imply a catastrophic things for FLOSS databases --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
