The rumor wrt to buying sleepycat is true.
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/sleepycat.html
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:32:00AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> >Oracle purchases Sleepycat. From what I understand, BerkeleyDB was the
> >"other" way that MySQL could have transactions if Oracle decided to
> >restrict InnoDB tables (after purchasing Innobase last year).
>
> From what I read a few days ago, Oracle is negotiating with Sleepycat,
> Zope
> (is that the PHP developer's name?), and one other OSS developer. Nothing is
> yet signed, and they could all fall through.
>
> Rich
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