[mdlug] Open source MySQL - MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns M ySQL

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 06:42 -0800, David Lane wrote:
> That may be but MySQL caused Oracle to do a lot of things recently
> that they did not do 10 or 12 years ago.  

Seriously?  Like what?  Anyone who compares MySQL to Informix/DB2/Oracle
does nothing but advertise they can't tell the difference between a pony
and an elephant.

Ponies are great, I love ponies, ponies are useful.  But ponies are not
elephants.  Sometimes you need an elephant.

> Now for the rest of us, YES I am concerned because I dont trust
> Oracle.  Now if they charged 59.99 for a boxed copy that I can load on
> any computer Windows/Linux/Unix I want as many times I want. Oracle
> has been bleeding in the last years I know Oracle is trying to figure
> out how to make money off of the many many MySql users. 

Oracle makes money of support and application development.  I doubt they
give two rusty cents about MySQL customers - the vast majority of whom
have a budget of $0.

> My question is that How come this sale get approved so fast in the
> U.S.?

Because the DB market is competitive.