Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:27:13 -0400 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@UPMC.EDU> To: ovi freebsd <lists@freebsdonline.com>, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Oracle buys Sun Message-ID: <1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA0EDF8846@msxmbxnsprd18.acct.upmchs.net> In-Reply-To: <49ED9504.2070803@freebsdonline.com> References: <49EC97DA.5020600@freebsdonline.com> <b269bc570904201003y1739bd16v7539770335c898c@mail.gmail.com> <49ED9504.2070803@freebsdonline.com>
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> From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source (and = not a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are=20 > making money of it... I don't think they will give something back to open= source community but... we'll see... Doesn't Oracle own Postgres Db? I would think that would have something to = do with what they do with MySQL or vice versa. Rod Person Sr. Programmer http://www.ccbh.com "And of all the passions the most mischievous is pleasure. Why so? Because = all things are the slave of pleasure; and because the life of the wicked is= governed by pleasure as by a master." - Philo The Second Book of the Treatise on The Allegories of the Sacred Laws, a= fter the Work of the Six Days of Creation.=
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