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MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the solid-gone-baby dept.

hmart writes "As seen on ZDNet's Open Source Blog MySQL is taking another step to defend from Oracle's recent acquisitions of InnoBase and Sleepycat. From the article: 'MySQL responds by getting Solid Information Technology, a proprietary database vendor, to take its solidDB Storage Engine for MySQL open source, under the GPL, starting in June.'"

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  1. Re:This is good news by mccoma · · Score: 1, Troll
    Your right, dual-licensing requires ownership or agreement. It does make me wonder what happens if Oracle buys Solid.

    New Business Plan:
    1. Build transaction database engine
    2. let MySQL license it in their dual licensing scheme
    3. Get bought by Oracle

    MySQL might want to build their own engine or branch a BSD / Public Domain (e.g. SQLite) engine. It would sure keep this stuff from continuing.

    Once again "If you go the dual-licensing route - you need to own the code"