End of MySQL?

[Doug]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Doug <dougsweetser-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Richard's phrase struck my ear oddly:
>
>>> Last week,  Oracle had a
>>> hole in its products.  It had a high-end "big" database  in Oracle RDBMS.
>>>  It had a low-end "small" database in Berkeley DB.   But it had nothing in
>>> the middle, no mid-tier offering for  applications too big for Berkeley but
>>> too small for Oracle proper.   Today, assuming the buyout goes through,
>>> Oracle has a mid-tier  database to fill that role, something with which it
>>> can compete with  Sybase, Ingres and the like.
>
> I always thought of Oracle as one of those super expensive products to
> avoid (I heard they had an attractive sale force, the sign of a high
> margin product).  They always could market services for Berkeley DB
> and MySQL.  Now with the patina of ownership, perhaps they can make a
> stronger pitch.  I guess what prevents Oracle from doing anything
> draconian financially is that because they are open source, they can
> be forked.
>
> Now I am a bigger fan of postgresql, an ACID DB from the start.
>
> Doug
>