Sun made what ever money it made on MySQL (Open source GNU-style freeware license) by selling support for it. Can the combined Oracle-Sun continue that model: selling support for MySQL and hoping to "graduate" the larger of these to Oracle's co$$$$tly DB?
M$ isn't doing much in this economy, except laying-off US employees. I haven't seen any recent rumors of them buying anything, and last I looked their stock is down for the year. Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- If M$ had bought $un that would have been very scary. That would definitely would have been the end of MySQL and OpenOffice and maybe the rest of us too. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
