[development] Oracle buys SleepyCat

[Robin Monks]

If MySQL is open source (It is already, no?), then hopefully the community
will take it back and develop it.

Robin

On 2/15/06, puregin <puregin at puregin.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 14-Feb-2006, at 11:11 PM, Gordon Heydon wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 05:50 +0000, John Handelaar wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Yes this is true, but without MySQL AB, MySQL development will not
> > be as
> > active as it is currently is, and any new advancements will not be as
> > dramatic, and will most likely fall behind other database systems.
> >
> > This will affect Drupal.
> >
> > On the other hand this will mean that we will need to use another
> > database.
>
>     Oracle? ;)
> >
> > Gordon.
>
>


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