Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:47:31PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Stupid question here, but how susceptible is Oracle to "monopolistic
> practices", similar to what M$ is going through with the DoJ in the
> US?  This seems to be *very* close to the line, if it isn't over it
> ... no?

It may well be, but somebody would have sue, and then they would have
to win against Oracle.  I don't think that MySQL AB has the resources
to fight such a legal action, even assuming they'd win it.

Cheers,
D
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