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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 10:08 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> David Lane wrote:
> > Has it been done?
> > 
> > If so Who?
> > 
> > It is possable that Oracle is trying to be an IBM I think one stratigy is to recaptiure their market share.
> > 
> > David C. Lane
> > 
> 
> Personally, I don't know how Oracle can be allowed to buy
> Sun AND KEEP MySQL without creating a legal paradox.

What Paradox?  There are numerous databases on the market: PostgreSQL,
Firebird, Paradox, Oracle, Informix, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, etc...

And Sun?  I wouldn't consider them terribly relevant these days.  Oracle
will own Java. Ok, Microsoft owns .NET.  And IBM has a Java
implementation.

> It's in Oracle's financial best interest for MySQL to be
> as worthless as possible as compared to Oracle's other
> offerings.  As a company listed on the stock exchanges, Oracle's
> officers are LEGALLY required to try to make as much money as
> possible, 

Please, didn't the recent shinanigans of the financial companies, and
decades of GM, finally put this silliness the rest?  [Not to mention Sun
Microsystems!]  A companies officers are entirely free to ram it
straight into the ground, act like drunken frat-boys, and moon the
shareholders.