Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

saghir.taj_at_gmail.com wrote:
> As reported in several sources Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy for an
> undisclosed sum of money.This appears to be a strategic move by Oracle
> to put MySQL between a rock and hard place...... For Full Story visit.
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For those that did not attend Oracle OpenWorld there is no question in my mind that Oracle no longer perceives IBM (DB2/Informix) or Sybase as threats to its position.

The fact that Larry destroyed MySQL as part of his keynote was enough to signal the change to me. I will paraphrase Larry's statement to the best of my ability.

"Do you know how long it took for the first break-in and theft of data from MySQL after it was released as compared with Oracle"?

MySQL ... 45 minutes
Oracle ... 15 years

In the US; just the fact that there is no way to make MySQL comply with SarbOx, FACTA, and HIPAA should be enough to kill it in the minds of most thinking people. But then one has good reason to speculate as to what percentage of IT management qualifies as 'thinking'.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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