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> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On > Behalf Of mark-OGhnF3Lt4opAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org > > Mostly Oracle and open source doesn't worry me. The specific case of > Oracle and MySQL does worry me, because it is a case of them acquiring > an open source project that has been gradually expanding into direct > competition with their flagship commercial product. I believed, and > still believe, that the world would have been better served by > requiring Oracle to divest MySQL. At first, that was what I thought too. But then I realized: #1 MySQL doesn't compete against oracle database. They're different products, and whenever somebody chooses one or the other, the other wasn't really an option. They each satisfy different needs. #2 Oracle has plenty of other open source database projects, dbd, innodb, which are long standing successful products. #3 Mysql is profitable. One of the few parts of sun that was. It wouldn't make sense to do anything but embrace it.
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