I don't think the purchase was about MySQL at all. I'm sure Oracle is far more interested in java, zfs, and solaris than they are MySQL. MySQL is just an added bonus that will go well with their acquisition of Innobase Oy a few years ago. Oracle didn't kill InnoDB and it's not very likely that they will kill MySQL. If you walk around the user conference this week you will see why it would be incredibly stupid try to try kill MySQL. Not that companies like Percona would let that happen anyway. After all it is GPL.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, <michael.coll-ba...@verizonwireless.com> wrote: > > >> From: Peter Brawley [mailto:peter.braw...@earthlink.net] >> >> An optimist wrote that. A pessimist, Larry Dignan at >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598&tag=nl.e539, wrote point six: >> >> "Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that >> open source database mess with the margins of his database. >> MySQL at best will wither from neglect. In any case, MySQL >> is MyToast." >> >> We ought to know who's right within half a year. >> > > Is MySQL not Open Source? Heck, I'd love to help with that. We would > just have to change the name to something befitting the product. MySQL > still tickles my MS warning alerts; My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, > etc. How about 'GNO', pronounced like 'Know', stands for "GNO's Not > Oracle"? > > > The information contained in this message and any attachment may be > proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work > product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or > agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify me > immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all > copies and backups thereof. Thank you. > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=eric.ber...@gmail.com > > -- Eric Bergen eric.ber...@provenscaling.com http://www.provenscaling.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
