Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@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

Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-22 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@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

Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 17:16:33 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@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

Re: BSD

2009-04-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 at 11:05:24 +, Rick N wrote: (Actually) and Histrorically, Sun had a lot to do with the BSD's (and vice-versa), Bill Joy's early work and contibution to the BSD/Unix which later he took to

Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-22 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, pete wright wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:  - Merge Oracle DB with MySQL, or add features from Oracle DB   to MySQL.  This doesn't make sense at all (apart from the   fact that it would cause licensing problems).  Why

Bill Joy's contribution (was: BSD)

2009-04-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 20:07:54 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 at 11:05:24 +, Rick N wrote: (Actually) and Histrorically, Sun had a lot to do with the BSD's (and vice-versa), Bill Joy's early work and contibution to the BSD/Unix