This surely isn't a very complicated thing for people to work out - just follow the Very Simple Oracle/Innodb FAQ: 1. Does Larry Ellison (Oracle CEO) do things for the good of the industry or little guys? Answer: *Never* 2. Is there any opportunity for the Oracle DB to reuse IP within Innodb Answer: Almost certainly not 3. Is there a trivial upgrade path from Innodb/Mysql to Oracle Answer: No 4. Ok, with that out of the way - what possible reason would oracle have to acquire Innodb? Answer: obviously to cripple an opponent by robbing it of critical infrastructure - through licensing changes 5. How will this benefit OSS Customers? Answer: not in any way imaginable It's like this: Oracle is seeing customers moving to mysql for the small stuff. But they make money on the small stuff too - and even if oracle is superior to mysql in 7 ways out of 10, they're loosing cash to mysql. This move completely kills all mysql momentum in the market place: - Mysql now has to dedicate resources to finding an innodb replacement. Good luck - there are no commodity persistant layers that support transactions like Innodb. - Oracle can renew the license agreement at a much higher price, thereby winning short-term revenue at MySQL's expense! - MySQL was talking about a big-enterprise role just down the road (before they got wind of this buy out and started acting meek a couple of weeks ago). Much of what they're missing is really functionality that should go into Innodb - Heikki Tuuri (innodb creator) has often stated that "partitioning for all table types will probably be available in 2006 or 2007". If Innodb built that they could start capturing a big chunk of the oracle revenue. This threat is now dead - with the only other strong competitors DB2 and SQL Server. - In spite of being GPL, good luck on finding another crew of programmers that specialize in relational database engines to this product up. The few that exist in the open source world seem to all work at postgresql. So yeah, Larry has MySQL by the balls right now. MySQL AB was probably looking forward to a big GA announcement for v5 next month - but there is no good publicity for MySQL in the foreseeable future now. **************** ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 77 972255 +256 71 221141 Fax: +256 31 262122 ***************************************************************** |
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