The long reach of Oracle

[blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org (Edward Ned Harvey)]

> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
> Behalf Of mark-OGhnF3Lt4opAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org
> 
> Mostly Oracle and open source doesn't worry me. The specific case of
> Oracle and MySQL does worry me, because it is a case of them acquiring
> an open source project that has been gradually expanding into direct
> competition with their flagship commercial product. I believed, and
> still believe, that the world would have been better served by
> requiring Oracle to divest MySQL.

At first, that was what I thought too.  But then I realized:
#1 MySQL doesn't compete against oracle database.  They're different
products, and whenever somebody chooses one or the other, the other wasn't
really an option.  They each satisfy different needs.

#2 Oracle has plenty of other open source database projects, dbd, innodb,
which are long standing successful products.

#3 Mysql is profitable.  One of the few parts of sun that was.  It wouldn't
make sense to do anything but embrace it.