[General] Sun to buy MySQL for $1 billion

[bashar abdullah]

On the MySQL acquisition scale, does anyone else see it as a conspiracy
indirect acquisition by Oracle?
Read this link<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/john-dvoraks-second-opinion-sun-mysql/story.aspx?guid=%7B88606B4A-A4AF-46FC-9C80-6B186A622456%7D&dist=hplatest>

On Jan 19, 2008 10:06 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Bashar! Glad someone else is suffering besdies me! :p~
>
> >From the chat I had with a great guy from KBM (An AIX admin), he said
> it's possible to have a database on multiple OSes, or different
> versions of the same OS, just as long as they're fully POSIX compliant
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Fully_POSIX-compliant] .. Windows,
> as you might have guessed, doesn't fit in the window (pun intended),
> because of many issues, one of them would be the way it represents new
> lines: In Windows, a new line is '\r\n', while in *nix systems, it's
> '\n' only.
> That may apply to DB2 (IBM's DB) only, though.
>
> Maybe, Oracle mentions that all DBs should work under one similar OS
> of the same version, to avoid lawsuits when things don't work (got
> bitten before?!), or maybe, because their DB may have exhibited
> strange behaviors when deployed on different OSes, due to different
> patch-levels of the OS, which may affect the patch-level of the DB.
>
> There is only one implementer for SAP in the gulf, and they're not as
> competent as they should be, but they're MUCH cheaper than their
> European counterparts. Which is why the management chose them! (And
> now paying audit teams from Germany to re-check their work...). Maybe
> prices will drop later, when the SAP market expands further (As far as
> I know, 6 major companies in Kuwait are seeking SAP).
>
> By the way, SAP uses MaxDB, which USED to be under MySQL up until late
> 2007. Now, SAP is the owner of MaxDB.
>
> I heard about a good example of good management, in KMEFIC, because
> most of the managers are engineers. So, I guess, it just depends on
> how lucky you are to fall in a place with such management! (3asa Allah
> yarzegna enshallah!!!!)
> --
>       Majed B.
>
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