From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 22 23:15:07 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 F07DA106567D for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:15:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB01E8FC14 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:15:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from dereel.lemis.com (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8821FDDF04; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:15:03 +1000 (EST) Received: by dereel.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id ABF36A108E; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:14:53 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:14:53 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20090422231453.GN65705@dereel.lemis.com> References: <200904210847.n3L8lpxL082986@lurza.secnetix.de> <20090422014929.GA70994@dereel.lemis.com> <868wlssoq6.fsf@ds4.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zBPbvmIlJjvpbu6L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <868wlssoq6.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Jayton Garnett , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:15:09 -0000 --zBPbvmIlJjvpbu6L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 17:16:33 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: >> Jayton Garnett writes: >>> 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. >> >> Where do you get that idea from? Sun hasn't ceased funding--quite the >> contrary. > > Think future, not past. That doesn't fit Jayton's original statement. Sun is in the past in this scenario. > Why would Oracle want to finance the development of one of their > main competitors? If they buy them, they're not a competitor. Thinking future means forgetting the lessons of history. Why did Oracle buy InnoBase, which only runs on MySQL? Admittedly, we at MySQL did a lot of head-scratching about that at the time, but it certainly didn't look like they were trying to close things down. FWIW, during my time at MySQL, Oracle continued active development of InnoDB. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --zBPbvmIlJjvpbu6L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknvpO0ACgkQIubykFB6QiPi2gCeIeTgrJP+RxbOHBrw1kIC9UUg qg0An3kGqsFmX91XTYUeunUvnBtAyCKP =y7Hj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zBPbvmIlJjvpbu6L--