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Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL
- jhancock 17y agoone more reason to use postgres ;)
- smoody 17y agoOracle has owned InnoDB for quite a while -- the transactional storage engine used by MySQL. They could have easily killed it off and thus left MySQL with very few alternatives for anyone wanting something that could do sub-table-level locking, etc. but they didn't.