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Oracle Acquires Sleepycat

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the everyone-getting-a-piece-of-open-source dept.

Deven writes "Computerworld is reporting that Oracle has just acquired Sleepycat Software (makers of the open-source Berkeley DB embedded database) for an undisclosed sum. Having previously acquired Innobase, Oracle is certainly taking a look at diversity."

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  1. Re:PotgreSQL... by consumer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What's keeping MySQL afloat? Hmmm... Incredible speed? Easy setup and administration? Handy SQL extensions? Enterprise features for those who want them and not for those who don't? These things matter, and PostgreSQL, for all that it is an impressive database, does not have them.