Oracle and MySQL -- Good Move or Bad Bet? 226
sendai-X writes "With the recently announced purchase of Innobase, Oracle has shown it's intention to further support open source. This is key as open source enters the mainstream in business and in light of the success IBM has had with the Eclipse project, and Sun recently looking at purchasing PostgresSQL. What do Slashdot users think about this merger? Is it beneficial to the market and database users by having the largest database vendor openly support MySQL and provide an upgrade path to Oracle? Or is it just another cog in the Oracle machine in their attempt to dominate the enterprise IT market? Will this change the database market landscape? Will it help or hurt IBM and Microsoft?"
It's beautiful QWZX (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly his ultimate goal is to put Oracle technology into MySQL so that he can give it away for free. Now, you may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join Larry and me. And world shall live as one.
Re:Bad move for Oracle... (Score:3, Funny)
Will it help or hurt IBM and Microsoft? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes.
Re:As far as I know (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you.
Re:As far as I know (Score:3, Funny)
Right, after all Larry Ellison & Oracle might have bought Innodb in order to both:
1. improve a competitor's product (mysql)
2. slash their own throats by cutting their primary revenue stream from the oracle database
Could be.
Wouldn't be impossible.
You never know.
Better just wait and see.
Cross our fingers and hope.
and the fact that in one fell swoop they can kill a competitor would never occur to a company like Oracle with such a philanthropic reputation.
Nope.
Never.
Not in a million years.
Not in this lifetime.
Re:So? (Score:2, Funny)
You want to see out of hand? Start a discussion functional programming versus object-oriented programming with a Python programmer and a Scheme programmer.