Oracle Acquires Innobase

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."

Comments

Somebody set us up the Innobase.

[Mulletproof]

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

Re:A warning to the KDE project?

[adtifyj]

The KDE project and Trolltech have carefully protected the future of all software developed on top of the Free QT license.

In the event of a buyout, QT will be re-licensed under a BSD license.

This agreement was negotiated very soon after Trolltech was formed.