Yup But it has come up with new features like Oracle's Berkeley DB 4.5 is a replication framework .....etc.....
Dilip -----Original Message----- From: Jimmy G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:13 AM To: Parikh, Dilip Kumar Cc: Jeremy Cole; Shanmugam, Dhandapani; Martijn Tonies; MySql Subject: Re: Oracle is acquiring............................... Hello, This shouldn't come as anything shocking to regular readers of this list. Oracle picked up Sleepycat back in Feb of 2006. http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/sleepycat.html Well past the rumor stage at this point :) -- Jimmy Parikh, Dilip Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > Wow, the rumors were true. Oracle is snapping up Open Source Database > companies now. First it was Innobase (see Oracle buys Innobase. MySQL > between rock and hard place?) and now it's Sleepycat Software. > > The purchase of Sleepycat, which has been rumored for weeks, gives > Oracle another open-source product to complement its proprietary > database offerings. At an investor conference last week, Oracle CEO > Larry Ellison reiterated the company's strategy to generate revenue > from a combination of open-source and proprietary software. > They produce and support the famed Berkeley DB embedded database > engine and have radically improved it's features since the version 1.x days. > Nowadays you get a small, fast, transactional database engine with > industrial grade reliability and replication. > > > > > > > Dilip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeremy Cole > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:15 PM > To: Shanmugam, Dhandapani > Cc: Martijn Tonies; MySql > Subject: Re: Oracle is acquiring............................... > > Hi, > > I wouldn't say the Sleepycat/BDB acquisition had anything to do with > MySQL. BDB is much more useful *outside* of MySQL, and has a much > bigger market there anyway. The BDB storage engine is all but useless. > > As for Innobase/InnoDB, their motives are still unclear. :) > > Regards, > > Jeremy > > Shanmugam, Dhandapani wrote: >> What is the reason for Oracle to detain Mysql Features like BDB, >> INNODB...? Is there any Hidden Market strategies for that.... >> >> >> Thanks & Regards , >> Dhandapani S >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martijn Tonies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:41 PM >> To: MySql >> Subject: Re: Oracle is acquiring............................... >> >> >> >>> surely mysql would just fork the last gpl innodb release if they got >>> bummed by oracle... >> I doubt if they can -- from the InnoDB website: >> The GPLv2 License >> The GNU General Public License version 2, under which both MySQL and >> InnoDB are published, does not allow, without permission from MySQL >> AB > >> and Innobase Oy, linking of InnoDB and MySQL, or the client libraries >> of MySQL, to a product which you distribute but which does not itself >> satisfy the GNU GPLv2 license. >> >> >> >> So if Innobase doesn't grant MySQL permission, they have no leg to >> stand on. >> >> >> >> Either way, I think Falcon is the future if you want to stay with >> MySQL only, >> >> other options are available if you want to go 3rd party... >> >> >> >> >> >> Martijn Tonies >> Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL, and more! >> Upscene Productions >> http://www.upscene.com >> My thoughts: >> http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ >> Database development questions? Check the forum! >> http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com >> >> >> -- >> MySQL General Mailing List >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: >> http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > -- > high performance mysql consulting > www.provenscaling.com > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
