Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

Steve Manes wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> As of this moment, if Oracle buys Zend, they could effectively kill
>> PHP ... the core engine that PHP is built around is a Zend engine, so
>> if they were to revoke the license for that, PHP would be dead ...
>> kinda like MySQL with InnoDB ... now, there was talk at one point
>> time with replacying that engine with Parrot, so I'm not sure how
>> hard/long it would take for them to do so if Zend got pulled out from
>> under them ...
>
> FWIW, I know that Yahoo began quietly (though not quietly enough,
> obviously) organizing an Open PHP dev group a couple of years ago with
> the purpose of replacing the proprietary Zend engine.
>
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A secret Open group  I like it!

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Oisin