[buug] Shuttleworth thinks Oracle/Sun deal is great news

Ken Ingram ken.ingram at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 11:52:15 PDT 2009


And that means Oracle will have ownership of MySQL.

What will it do to that market? Hm?

(I'm an Oracle DBA and I have been using MySQL extensively for the last 6
years.)

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Pewter Bot <pewterbot9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) thinks Oracle/Sun deal is great news for Linux
> Submitted by Ali Ross on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 13:18
>
> Whilst the sceptics reel and the blogosphere goes mad with speculation
> over whether Oracle will use Sun's large open source portfolio to
> Microsoft's/et al. detriment the key players in the commercial side to
> open source are putting a positive spin on this news, especially none
> other than Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. (cont. reading here:)
>
>
> http://linuxnewbieguide.org/content/mark-shuttleworth-ubuntu-thinks-oraclesun-deal-great-news-linux
>
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