[IP] Re: Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems - NYTimes.com

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Stephen Fulton <sf@lists.esoteric.ca>
Date: April 20, 2009 10:23:56 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems -  
NYTimes.com

Dave,

For IP if you wish.

One of the Sun's assets is the open-source MySQL database software,  
which is used by many, many Internet sites.  I am curious, and  
somewhat concerned, about what Oracle intends to do with that product  
now, as it does compete directly with Oracle.  There are other options  
for sites which prefer or can only afford an open-source platform  
rather than commercial products, but none so widely used as MySQL.   
These are uncertain times for a large number of website operators and  
other users of MySQL.

-- Stephen

David Farber wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/companies/21sun.html?hp
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