WSJ on Oracle's purchase of Sun and consequences for MySQL

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Tue Apr 28 05:08:44 UTC 2009


Anne Wilson wrote:
>> If Oracle thinks that their $7 billion is going to killing MySQL, they
>> are sorely mistaken.  Companies come and go.  FOSS endures, and so will
>> MySQL.
>>
> So if I were in their shoes I'd want to make some money out of it.  Oops - 
> isn't that what they are planning?

I hope so, but that's certainly not what they did with PeopleSoft.

Matt Flaschen




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