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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.