On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:51, Leonel Nunez wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >
> >> Oracle purchases Sleepycat. From what I understand, BerkeleyDB was the
> >> "other" way that MySQL could have transactions if Oracle decided to
> >> restrict InnoDB tables (after purchasing Innobase last year).
> >
> > From what I read a few days ago, Oracle is negotiating with
> > Sleepycat, Zope
> > (is that the PHP developer's name?), and one other OSS developer.
> > Nothing is
> > yet signed, and they could all fall through.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>
> Zope is a Python framework
> Zend is for php
Also, given the license of PHP, which is NOT like the GPL, but much
closer to the BSD license, I doubt Oracle could manage to buy it and
kill it or hide it or whatever.
