Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns

Luke has no name writes "Yesterday we discussed MySQL founder Monty Widenius's objections to the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle. Today, Oracle released a statement to address some of these issues. Among their commitments, Oracle says they intend to continue releasing MySQL under the GPL, allow vendors to produce 'any-license' third-party engines, maintain the Reference Manual, invest millions into the product, and create a 'customer advisory board.' The pledges are still not enough for some, however."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/1812252/Oracle-Responds-To-MySQL-Purchase-Concerns?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/14/1812252"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/1812252/Oracle-Responds-To-MySQL-Purchase-Concerns?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QrrNy6GJ0ibTn9NSJkE4291QktE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QrrNy6GJ0ibTn9NSJkE4291QktE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QrrNy6GJ0ibTn9NSJkE4291QktE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QrrNy6GJ0ibTn9NSJkE4291QktE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/TWZfvwGODM8" height="1" width="1"/

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