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Oracle and MySQL -- Good Move or Bad Bet?

Posted by Cliff on from the when-open-source-and-commercial-software-collude dept.

sendai-X writes "With the recently announced purchase of Innobase, Oracle has shown it's intention to further support open source. This is key as open source enters the mainstream in business and in light of the success IBM has had with the Eclipse project, and Sun recently looking at purchasing PostgresSQL. What do Slashdot users think about this merger? Is it beneficial to the market and database users by having the largest database vendor openly support MySQL and provide an upgrade path to Oracle? Or is it just another cog in the Oracle machine in their attempt to dominate the enterprise IT market? Will this change the database market landscape? Will it help or hurt IBM and Microsoft?"

6 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. It's beautiful QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I love Larry Ellison. How can anyone doubt his true and pure intentions for Open Source? Has there ever been a more generous and loving man? Clearly this is a man who saw the potential to give back to humanity by reward the creators of innoDB, while simultaneously being able to give the resources to it that it richly deserves.

    Clearly his ultimate goal is to put Oracle technology into MySQL so that he can give it away for free. Now, you may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join Larry and me. And world shall live as one.

  2. Re:Bad move for Oracle... by Pootie+Tang · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something like Oracle Application Server maybe?

  3. Will it help or hurt IBM and Microsoft? by YA_Python_dev · · Score: 3, Funny
    Will it help or hurt IBM and Microsoft?

    Yes.

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    There's a hidden treasure in Python 3.x: __prepare__()
  4. Re:As far as I know by mackertm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please stop being reasonable. This is Slashdot, we'd rather see some wild speculation.

    Thank you.

  5. Re:As far as I know by kpharmer · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Nobody outside of Oracle has any idea what their plans are for Inno. Pretty hard to call it a good/bad bet, given this.

    Right, after all Larry Ellison & Oracle might have bought Innodb in order to both:
        1. improve a competitor's product (mysql)
        2. slash their own throats by cutting their primary revenue stream from the oracle database

    Could be.
    Wouldn't be impossible.
    You never know.
    Better just wait and see.
    Cross our fingers and hope.

    and the fact that in one fell swoop they can kill a competitor would never occur to a company like Oracle with such a philanthropic reputation.

    Nope.
    Never.
    Not in a million years.
    Not in this lifetime.

  6. Re:So? by jonadab · · Score: 2, Funny

    > The mysql vs. postgres thing gets so out of hand.

    You want to see out of hand? Start a discussion functional programming versus object-oriented programming with a Python programmer and a Scheme programmer.

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    Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.