When
· Naughties
· · 2009
· · · October
· · · · 21 (2 entries)
Autumn Light ·
It comes from the sun. Through leaves in the autumn, and lampposts too ... [2 comments]
The EU and MySQL ·
[Disclosure: I have no non-public information on any of the MySQL-related aspects of the Sun/Oracle transaction, nor on the current anti-trust review, and I am not speaking for anyone but myself.] My guess is that the EU will eventually conclude that it would be very difficult for Oracle to kill or cripple MySQL, even if they wanted to. I think the more interesting question is whether Oracle can turn MySQL from a useful technology into an interesting business, something that in my opinion it’s never been. What I’m worried about, though, are unintended side-effects ... [2 comments]
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