From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 21 09:17:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CD0106564A for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:17:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jayton.garnett@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f165.google.com (mail-bw0-f165.google.com [209.85.218.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA8D8FC1C for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:17:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jayton.garnett@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so1791152bwz.43 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:17:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=l1R40/zzXSXNnSHme/DIPb+ZIB0nBTfxDvgLW8hRVXA=; b=LCjbRiLGkB/ISPs2nngDUOS5/A31/08cGNxXq0hCUZGLg1MQc3DC4VDZTmsCtnPnNA vctsiUVZGDUQeA5u3HtnkgE12BczYVn1kr7VLnHbuVkf3pUSKkIRVYeuXeb3vr8cDBaA psER8Gc0ETvW20rB9kdamXgX7hjfkbVM+OZbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=R+co9BCxW+ybze3dSUeS+XO5Ijta9dK48f5Shzq/hnE2af61GvtY8cdd/H/HgTELUe uFU5MClaVImrtNEyjsP1kL6QanEfua9+RGxvg72FvZAc5Ly2OUUmbU55xBogo6+c6ZgV ZCHsXk8R2xOp3Fx8tGP4f19jKHG5yqyRydiU4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.93.18 with SMTP id v18mr3654833mul.43.1240305444088; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:17:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200904210847.n3L8lpxL082986@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200904210847.n3L8lpxL082986@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:17:24 +0100 Message-ID: From: Jayton Garnett To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:17:25 -0000 Oliver, I hope you are right on that score. I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding for any of it's development. Maybe it's going to be the opposite, maybe Oracle will continue with the development of MySQL and apply some Oracle 'features' to MySQL... -- Jay