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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. Ellison by dcigary · · Score: -1, Troll

    I, for one, welcome our new Oracle overlords.

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    --
    ...my Karma ran over your Dogma...
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  3. You FaIL it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Re:oy vey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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