Hi, LWN has included some commentary on this in this weeks news. It is only for paid subscribers but I can provide links to some stories. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/172128/aff738d540472700/ This will allow you to read the article. Gordon. On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:32 -0500, Khalid B wrote:
Oracle bought SleepyCat, the makers of the Berkeley DB that powers MySQL's BDB tables.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/15/0018241
Previously, they bought InnoBase, makers of InnoDB.
This can spell financial trouble for MySQL AB (the company), since they rely on Inno for non-GPL licensed versions.
MyISAM is still there, but for commerical applications, this may be bad news.
Here is my take on it. http://baheyeldin.com/technology/software/oracle-is-becoming-too-powerful-af...
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