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> Oracle, your engineers know exactly what will happen. Why don't you? I think Oracle knows what they're doing. Oracle likes paying customers and I suspect tha

by hexis 13y ago

> Oracle, your engineers know exactly what will happen. Why don't you? I think Oracle knows what they're doing. Oracle likes paying customers and I suspect that they don't make much, if anything, on MySQL users. I've been using MySQL for years and I've never knowingly paid Oracle a dime.

arkitaip 13y ago
Why do you think they acquired MySQL in the first place?
- jamespo 13y ago
  A nice side effect of acquiring Sun, nothing more
  - dyno12345 13y ago
    Why did they buy MySQL engine providers Innobase and Sleepycat a few years earlier?
    - ams6110 13y ago
      AFAIK Oracle didn't really have an offering in the embedded DB market before that. So at least that sort of makes sense. MySQL doesn't compete with Oracle's database, so buying it to kill it doesn't make sense.
      - dyno12345 13y ago
        That could explain Sleepycat, but not Innobase which was platform-specific to MySQL
  - spudlyo 13y ago
    This is not a well informed comment. Oracle already bought InnoBASE Oy which built InnoDB. With the acquisition of MySQL now they have the whole thing. MySQL may take a bite into Oracle's bottom line at the low end, but it really sticks it to Microsoft and SQLServer, which is why Oracle sunk so much effort into better Windows support in 5.5.