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Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

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From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Jussi Mikkola <jussi.mikkola@bonware.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>, Mike Nolan <nolan@gw.tssi.com>, "Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com>, PgSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-10-13T00:03:22Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On 10/12/2005 6:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jussi Mikkola wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Well, if the PostgreSQL developers would be hired away from the project with 
>> big money, would that not mean, that the project would be a good path to earn 
>> a lot of money. So, new talented developers could join the project and see 
>> that as a path to high salary jobs??
> 
> Wow, what a twisted way to look at it ... not entirely inaccurate, but 
> twisted :)

Oracle could even develop an exceptional interest in keeping PostgreSQL 
alive as it's "future DB engineer forge".


Jan

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