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Cc: Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun
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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?

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