{"id":345,"date":"2006-02-16T02:34:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=88"},"modified":"2006-02-16T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T14:37:32","slug":"oracle-tried-to-buy-mysql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Oracle tried to buy MySQL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1796\">my post yesterday<\/a>, it emerged overnight that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Oracle+tried+to+buy+open-source+MySQL\/2100-7344_3-6040197.html\">Oracle tried to buy MySQL<\/a>.  That gives credence to my belief that Oracle are really trying to get into the open source space, without releasing their own source code. Since open source is hot property at the moment, from Oracle's perspective it is better that they acquire database technology companies than a competitor. And if the rumors of<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1804\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1804\" dc:title=\"Oracle tried to buy MySQL\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1804\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=yIsdJ3\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=yIsdJ3\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=88\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1796\">my post yesterday<\/a>, it emerged overnight that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Oracle+tried+to+buy+open-source+MySQL\/2100-7344_3-6040197.html\">Oracle tried to buy MySQL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That gives credence to my belief that Oracle are really trying to get into the open source space, without releasing their own source code. Since open source is hot property at the moment, from Oracle&#8217;s perspective it is better that they acquire database technology companies than a competitor. And if the rumors of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10795_3-6038569.html?tag=nl\">Oracle&#8217;s impending purchase of JBoss<\/a> are borne out, then it would seem that Oracle are trying to acquire a ready to run deployment environment for web applications based on open source technology.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1804\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1804\" dc:title=\"Oracle tried to buy MySQL\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1804\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=h13Rfm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=h13Rfm\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=88\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}