Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 00:49, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com wrote:
> > What is Oracle after?  Small DB technology?  They already have rdb.
> > Firebird, back in the Groton Database Corporation days, was built to be
> > compatible with rdb.  Marrying those technologies through modification of
> > existing gateways makes more technological sense than InnoDB.
> >
> > Oracle is trying for market share, as they always do, but it appears ill
> > conceived.  MySQL is for people who can't or won't tune and manage a
> > DBMS. Oracle products are just not going to fit.  Both on price and
> > complexity. If they kill MySQL, they are just going to increase other
> > true FOSS RDBMS projects' market share.  Power to them.
>
> Oracle must know that the comodity database days are coming.  By
> attacking MySQL they delay that time by another few quarters, perhaps.

I've been thinking more and more that oracle just want's leverage against 
my$ql to force them to live up to thier claims that they "don't compete with 
oracle".  Ie. there are a few large commercial applications (think erp and 
crm) that my$ql has been targeting to be able to support with 5.0 that would 
compete directly with oracle (by way of giving those application vendors 
leverage to use my$ql instead of oracle).  Part of a future licensing 
agreement might be that my$ql stay out of those markets.  

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Robert Treat
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