Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:14:40 -0400
From:      "Person, Roderick" <personrp@UPMC.EDU>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        ovi freebsd <lists@freebsdonline.com>, "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Oracle buys Sun
Message-ID:  <1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA0EDF8BA1@msxmbxnsprd18.acct.upmchs.net>
In-Reply-To: <49EE59D0.5020707@langille.org>
References:  <49EC97DA.5020600@freebsdonline.com> <b269bc570904201003y1739bd16v7539770335c898c@mail.gmail.com> <49ED9504.2070803@freebsdonline.com> <1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA0EDF8846@msxmbxnsprd18.acct.upmchs.net> <49EE59D0.5020707@langille.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

>From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan@langille.org]=20

>Person, Roderick wrote:
>> From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source=20
>> (and not a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are =
making money of it... I don't think they will give something back to open s=
ource community but... we'll see...
>=20
>> Doesn't Oracle own Postgres Db? I would think that would have something =
to do with what they do with MySQL or vice versa.

>Hell no.

>There's nothing to buy.  We like it like that.

Sorry, I got confused with the IBM funding of PostgresSQL.






Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA0EDF8BA1>