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Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>,
	Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   
>> "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des@des.no> writes:
>>     
>>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>       
>>>> Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>         
>>>>> I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do
>>>>> with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding for any of it's
>>>>> development.
>>>>>           
>>>> Where do you get that idea from?  Sun hasn't ceased funding--quite the
>>>> contrary.
>>>>         
>>> Think future, not past.
>>>       
>> That doesn't fit Jayton's original statement.  Sun is in the past in
>> this scenario.
>>     
>
> "buying Sun" is certainly not in the past.
>
>   
> DES
>   

/Michael Widenius will fork MySQL/: 
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/134208