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

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and
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Msg-id 20060210213655.C6751@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:

> 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.

This was kinda my impression too ... I just worried that i might have
missed something 'in the news' recently :(

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