[development] Oracle buys SleepyCat

[John Handelaar]

Khalid B wrote:
> Oracle bought SleepyCat, the makers of the Berkeley DB that powers
> MySQL's BDB tables.
> 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.


No Drupal site needs a 'commercial' MySQL license.

jh