Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes:
I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do
with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes:
I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes:
I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do
with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding for any of it's
development.
Where do you get that idea from? Sun hasn't ceased
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes:
I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do
with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding for any of it's
development.
Where do
On Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 17:16:33 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes:
Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes:
I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do
with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding for any of
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, pete wright wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
- Merge Oracle DB with MySQL, or add features from Oracle DB
to MySQL. This doesn't make sense at all (apart from the
fact that it would cause licensing problems). Why
Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote:
ovi freebsd li...@freebsdonline.com wrote:
With Oracle now owning all the rights to what is probably the biggest
free competitor, I think the open source world shouldn't put much stock
or investment into MySQL.
MySQL is open
Freddie Cash wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, ovi freebsd li...@freebsdonline.com wrote:
I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it matters,
maybe many of you heard about last news:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246 -
/Oracle
From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source (and not
a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are
making money of it... I don't think they will give something back to open
source community but... we'll see...
Doesn't Oracle own Postgres Db? I
: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:42:18 +0300
From: li...@freebsdonline.com
To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Oracle buys Sun
I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it
matters, maybe many of you heard about last news:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20
Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com wrote:
I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do with
MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding for any of it's development.
No. Buying Sun has something to do with Oracle wanting to
have their own real operating system.
I
Person, Roderick perso...@upmc.edu wrote:
Doesn't Oracle own Postgres Db?
No. They own Berkeley DB (they acquired Sleepycat Software
about three years ago, who developped Berkeley DB since 1996).
PostgreSQL, which also originates from Berkeley, is developed
by a global group of volunteers,
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Maybe it's going to be the opposite, maybe Oracle will continue with the
development of MySQL and apply some Oracle 'features' to MySQL...
By the way, I recommend to read the press release (if you
haven't done
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:42 AM, ovi freebsd li...@freebsdonline.com wrote:
Freddie Cash wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, ovi freebsd li...@freebsdonline.com
wrote:
I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it
matters,
maybe many of you heard about last news:
On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 at 11:05:24 +, Rick N wrote:
(Actually) and Histrorically, Sun had a lot to do with the BSD's
(and vice-versa), Bill Joy's early work and contibution to the
BSD/Unix which later he took to form a little company called Sun
Microsytems in the late '70's.
This is
Thinking about things a bit, this seems to be a good buy for Oracle.
Most likely, IMO, would be an effort to bring MySQL up to the point
where it can become Oracle Lite (with paid support, of course), to be
used as a the gateway drug to Oracle Express (with more paid support),
which is just a
Doesn't the US law have something to stop one company buying up another
where they are direct competitors? I hope Sun have/will agree to release the
MySQL rights to the whom ever has been working on it at Sun H/Q, although I
very much doubt this.
--
Jay
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ovi freebsd wrote:
I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it
matters, maybe many of you heard about last news:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246 -
/Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL)
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