Re: sun acquires MySQL

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:56:10 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


just wondering how this will affect MySQL's availability WRT fedora.

http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/

Unless Sun can the GPL version which seems unlikely I can't see it making
much difference. Sun already own OpenOffice.org for example and they
contributed a *lot* to the desktop including some really hard and
specialist work on accessibility.

Alan

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