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To: MediaMole
Java doesn’t threaten Oracle’s primary revenue stream, MySQL does.

Right. Oracle kills MySQL and acquires a hardware/server division. Java is incidental.

11 posted on 04/25/2009 11:11:31 PM PDT by libh8er
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As long as they NEVER charge for Java updates, then I’m OK with it.


12 posted on 04/25/2009 11:14:48 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: libh8er
Oracle kills MySQL and acquires a hardware/server division. Java is incidental.

Or Oracle makes MySQL more compatible with Oracle DB, and puts a ceiling on MySQL performance so that people migrate to Oracle DB as their performance needs increase.

22 posted on 04/26/2009 8:34:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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