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Oracle Acquires Innobase

Posted by jamie on from the heavy-user dept.

A short time ago, Oracle announced its acquisition of Innobase, the Finnish company that makes the GPL'd InnoDB table storage engine. Among MySQL users, the separately-written InnoDB is almost as popular as the native MyISAM engine, and is considered to be more advanced for most purposes. Slashdot has, except for search, run entirely on InnoDB for the past year or two so we're as concerned about this as anybody. Brian Aker, former Slashdot coder and current Director of Architecture for MySQL AB, comments: "InnoDB is GPL, so once again the beauty of the open source market is at play: there is no lock in, and we can continue to develop Innodb as we see fit. The code is out there and we plan on continuing to support it. The largest database vendor in the world just confirmed that the market for open source databases exists."

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  1. Somebody set us up the Innobase. by Mulletproof · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your Innobase are belong to us. Or them. One of the two.
    (Ok, yeah, you can shoot me now.)

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  2. haha! by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny
    InnoDB is GPL, so once again the beauty of the open source market is at play: there is no lock in, and we can continue to develop Innodb as we see fit. The code is out there and we plan on continuing to support it..

    Of Course, InnoDB exists because MySQL's effort (MyISAM) is such a piece of shit.

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  3. Re:/. concerned? by MemoryDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well they wanted to be the IKEA of db development, the users now have to fix InnoDB themselves ... sounds IKEAish :-)

  4. More mergers than you can shake a stick at... by Cutting_Crew · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oracle pulls this off..
    Autodesk acquires Alias(maya)
    Cingular buys out At&t wireless
    NewsCorp purchases IGN
    Yahoo purchases Konfabulator
    IBM buys Gluecode
    Verison acquires MCI
    EA buys Digital Illusions
    Google Acquires Keyhole Corp
    Adobe buys Macromedia
    GameStop buys EB
    Yahoo buys Flickr
    Yahoo buys MusicMatch
    Warner Bros buys Monolith Productions

    Mergers Left: 1. Sony buys Nintendo
    2. Microsoft buys Yahoo
    3. Google buys Sun
    4. EA buys Hollywood
    5. Walmart buys K-mart
    6. Google buys Sony
    7. Microsoft buys EA (very geographically convenient)
    8. Walmart goes Bankrupt.
    Google vs Microsoft vs RIAA Judge Judy presiding.

  5. Re:Largest DB Vendor in the world by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny
    Terabyte Oracle Database
    Terabyte SQL Server Database
    Terabyte DB2 Database

    Everybody sing!
    One of these things is not like the others!
    One of these things just doesn't belong!
    One of these things is not like the others!

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