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Comments on: Is it kill or cure for Oracle's database buy?

Oracle's purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering what the database giant's motives are.

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SAP?
by October 14, 2005 7:46 AM PDT
I haven't seen any articles that mention the effect of this on SAP's partnership with MySQL.

Seems like an obvious reason for Oracle to buy InnoDB.
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Buy to Kill
by Too Old For IT October 14, 2005 9:05 AM PDT
It would be a good way to force thousands of open source database users on to Oracle, and feed Larry Ellison's certified meglomania.
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SAP?
by October 14, 2005 7:46 AM PDT
I haven't seen any articles that mention the effect of this on SAP's partnership with MySQL.

Seems like an obvious reason for Oracle to buy InnoDB.
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Buy to Kill
by Too Old For IT October 14, 2005 9:05 AM PDT
It would be a good way to force thousands of open source database users on to Oracle, and feed Larry Ellison's certified meglomania.
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