Re: Oracle to buy Sun - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Oracle to buy Sun
Date
Msg-id 200904201741.03085.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Oracle to buy Sun  (Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@2ndQuadrant.it>)
Responses Re: Oracle to buy Sun  (Melanie <melanie@dunslane.net>)
Re: Oracle to buy Sun  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Monday 20 April 2009 16:24:32 Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
>    I am still in the process of understanding the impact of this on a
> wider scale. I would love to collect some ideas that can be presented
> during community talks, as "How is Oracle acquisition of Sun going to
> influence PostgreSQL" is a question that often and inevitably will be
> asked - I presume. I would love to get a list of PROS/CONS of this
> agreement as far as PostgreSQL is concerned, both from a technical point
> of view and a marketing point of view, so I believe your ideas are more
> than welcome!

Note that these announcement all conspicuously omit any mention of MySQL.  One
might expect that that part of the deal will be under regulatory
investigation.

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