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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:16:33 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Oracle buys Sun
Message-ID:  <868wlssoq6.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20090422014929.GA70994@dereel.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:49:29 %2B1000")
References:  <gsisk9$pqe$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <200904210847.n3L8lpxL082986@lurza.secnetix.de> <a534c7c30904210217i277f10f0pa608a591d84a3a58@mail.gmail.com> <20090422014929.GA70994@dereel.lemis.com>

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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.  Why would Oracle want to finance the
development of one of their main competitors?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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