Oracle Bid to Acquire MySQL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 16, 2006 @02:48AM from the watch-those-tractor-beams dept.

i_frame writes "CNet is reporting on a recent Oracle bid for open-source database MySQL. They were unsuccessful." From the article: "'It all comes back to the question of cannibalizing an existing business,' O'Grady said. 'If you determine that to some extent it's inevitable, wouldn't you prefer that you do it, instead of your competitors?' O'Grady said Oracle could benefit from MySQL in the way that IBM has from its acquisition of Gluecode, a company that commercializes the open-source Geronimo Java application server software and competed with IBM's own proprietary WebSphere product."

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Re:MicroracleSoft by GigsVT · 2006-02-16 02:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

You know it's GPL right?

It's not like the open source MySQL is going to go away if they buy MySQL AB.

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Re:MicroracleSoft by dr_d_19 · 2006-02-16 02:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

What isn't mentioned is that this would probably ruin many small businesses who depend on open-source software because they can't afford large expensive distributions such as Oracle

Yeah, because no other similiar solutions exists. Right?