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Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Martin Marques <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>

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From: Martin Marques <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
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: 2005-10-19T09:38:29Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>>> If there smart enough to be buying innobase these days, you can bet that 
>>> by now they have this stuff all straightened out. 
>> 
>> 
>> No, that doesn't seem to follow ... if Oracle are spending their
>> resources to attack MySQL rather than us, the conclusion would be that
>> they are clearly still more informed by "the buzz" than technical merit.
>
> With no disrespect to PostgreSQL, MySQL has 100x our downloads and 
> installations...

Yeah, kids playing with toys. You can't imagine how many people I heard 
have MySQL installed in there win98.

The bad thing is they addopt MySQL because they could have it installed 
there. :-(

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