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Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Chris Travers <chris@verkiel.metatrontech.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-10-19T05:10:18Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> 1)  PostgreSQL to Oracle database conversion utilities released by 
> Oracle (unlikely given extensible languages in PostgreSQL).

Strangely a pgsql to oracle exporter is a good thing.  It'd be a great 
feature of PostgreSQL.  Imagine how many people would start on 
PostgreSQL if they KNEW that one day they could easily move to Oracle if 
they needed to.  Risk management.

Chris