Oracle buys Sun

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 17:16:33 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett at gmail.com> 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
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