Nah, that sounds more like a conspiracy story than anything else (a lot of those going around regarding the Sun-Oracle merger). PostgreSQL is a much smaller player than MySQL, by a wide margin: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/
/Casper On Nov 4, 7:17 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > Others have expressed elsewhere that the EU has a sentimental (and > non-objective) attachment to MySQL -- and the MySQL brand as opposed to > perfectly good forks thereof. > > MySQL has European origins -- PostgreSQL has origins in the US. I think > unfortunately it may be that simple for the folk making these decisions. > > -- > Jess Holle > > > > Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > Bjorn Monnens wrote: > > >> Does anybody know what happens with the price if Oracle has to drop > >> mysql? If you pay 7.4 billion and a part of the revenue comes from a > >> product you have to drop, shouldn't somebody be paying the money you > >> lose? > > > I'm not expert here, but I presume Oracle would just sell mysql to > > something else (or force Sun to sell it before finalizing the buy) and > > get the money from the operation. > > > In the meantime, I back the points, that I've already expressed, by Jess > > and Sean. I'd add that MySQL is not the only FLOSS and reputable > > database on the market. There's Postgresql too, and thus even if (I > > repeat if) the EU concerns about MySQL's fate were correct, this > > wouldn't automatically imply a catastrophic things for FLOSS databases --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
