Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:34 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > On 10/12/2005 10:22 AM, Robert Bernier wrote:
> > > for the gossips among us, something interesting
> > >
> > > http://www.planetmysql.org/#830
> >
> > This one is good reading too ... seems the folks at SleepyCat are
> > having a good time:
> >
> > http://devtoe.blogspot.com/2005/10/oracle-buys-innodb-will-fork-save.html
> >
>
> So, MySQL is not dead, but MySQL AB seems like it might be about to be.
>
> Dual licencing relies upon MySQL's ability to sell product, which they
> can only do now if i) they sell you MySQL without InnoDB or ii) Oracle
> lets them charge money. Nobody would want to pay much for MySQL without
> InnoDB, leaving MySQL AB beholden to Oracle.
The other alternative is that MySQL is able to develop another
transactional storage engine quickly.
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