Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Bruce,

> Could Oracle modify PHP and JBoss so they work poorly with open source
> databases?

Sure.  However, their communities can also fork them.  That's unlikely with
JBoss which is corporate, but PHP is pretty close to forking already.   If
Zend+Oracle tries to lock out MySQL from PHP, you'll see a fork real fast.

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco