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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. Re:Somebody set us up the Innobase. by Tackhead · · Score: 0, Redundant
    > All your Innobase are belong to us. Or them. One of the two.
    (Ok, yeah, you can shoot me now.)


    Bugs: Do you want to shoot him now or wait till you get home?

    Daffy: SHOOT HIM NOW! SHOOT HIM NO_*BLAM*


    How are you gentlemen!

    Innobase are belong to us!

    A m00se is on the way to bite you.

    (What you say?)

    No realli! If you're karving your initals on the m00se
    with the sharpened end of an interspace t00thbrush given
    by Svenge - your brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star
    of many Norwegian m0vies: "The H0t Hands of an Oslo Dentist",
    "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge M0lars of Horst Nordfink",
    you have no time to survive, because m00se bites Kan be pretty nasti..."


    Bugs:

  2. Re:Somebody set us up the Innobase. by temojen · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Narrator: In A.D. 2005, transaction was beginning.

    Captain: What happen ?
    Programmer: Somebody set up us the MySQL.
    Operator: We get signal.
    Captain: What !
    Operator: Main screen turn on.
    Captain: It's you !!
    MySQL: How are you gentlemen !!
    MySQL: All your money are belong to user 127.
    MySQL: You are on the way to destruction.
    Captain: What you say !!
    MySQL: You have no chance to ACID, make your backup.
    MySQL: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
    Operator: Captain !! *
    Captain: Take off every Table!!
    Captain: You know what you doing.
    Captain: Move Table.
    Captain: For great justice.