On Thursday 23 April 2009 22:33:20 Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Max Pyziur wrote:
> "This is a monster step backward for those of us who are committed to
> sustaining open source," said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at
> Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who uses database software
> from Oracle as well as MySQL. "I have no doubt that this is an attempt to
> kill the competition."
If Oracle thinks that their $7 billion is going to killing MySQL, they
are sorely mistaken. Companies come and go. FOSS endures, and so will
MySQL.
So if I were in their shoes I'd want to make some money out of it. Oops -
isn't that what they are planning?
Anne
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