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Why did they buy MySQL engine providers Innobase and Sleepycat a few years earlier?
by dyno12345 13y ago
Why did they buy MySQL engine providers Innobase and Sleepycat a few years earlier?
- ams6110 13y agoAFAIK 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 agoThat could explain Sleepycat, but not Innobase which was platform-specific to MySQL