Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> I wish Oracle Corp. would release obsolete versions (7 and 8.0, for example)
> as open source.
>
> Just because those versions don't have Java, XML and other whistles and
> bells, it doesn't mean they wouldn't make a fine replacement for the MySQL
> and Postgress stuff that usually gets included in all the normal Linux
> distributions these days.
>
> Fat chance, of course.
>
> Just wishing and idly dreaming...
>
> Regards
> HJR
No doubt Microsoft and others would love to get their hands on the
source code. All that effort put into getting MVCC into Yukon and
they could just steal it.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 21:31:37 CDT
