Re: Oracle buying Sun... -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Oracle buying Sun...
From: Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:05:24 -0400
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Don wrote:

No, but they could really water it down and use it as a intro level hobbiest
dbms and if you want to get serious then you'll have to buy some version of
oracle... HYPOTHETICALLY, tales with more than 40 rows or 3000 columns,
then Oracle...etc...
They could also choke it performance wise...etc... Basically, neuter it...

That would be the fastest way to lose many, if not most, current MySQL users. MySQL would be forked faster than you can say "GPL".

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RE: Oracle buying Sun... , Don
RE: Oracle buying Sun... , Thompson, Glenn

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