I believe MySQL will still have great influence in Open Source area. The better is that MySQL will be a separate Company which has no relation to Sun and Oracle. Maybe Oracle can sell MySQL to a 3rd company.
2009/11/11 John Daisley <john.dais...@butterflysystems.co.uk> > What I am more concerned about at the moment is how much the uncertainty > over the deal is hurting MySQL? > > I was recently in a project planning meeting where MySQL was dismissed > completely because nobody could give guarantees about where MySQL was > going. There were a lot of concerns over where future development would > go and a fear that when the deal goes through Oracle may slowly raise > support and training costs to the sort of levels applicable to Oracle > database products. These kind of arguments seem impossible to counter > for as long as the uncertainty continues and I for one wish they would > just resolve the situation either way very quickly because its hurting > my business and open source software! > > regards > John > > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:50 -0600, Peter Brawley wrote: > > European regulators agree with Monty that the Oracle-Sun deal threatens > > database competition. Apparently Oracle means to play hardball. Meanwhile > > Sun revenue fell 25% in 3rd quarter 2009; who else but an > anti-competitive > > giant would take a chance on buying Sun now? Story here: > > > http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14840272&; > > source=features_box1. > > > > PB > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=hexi...@gmail.com > > -- Thanks & Best regards, Xiong HE
