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Re: [LUG] UH OH!

 

Quoting Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>:

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> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> Quoting Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>>> Oracle just bought Sun
>>> Goodbye MySQL hello MariaDB.
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>> Something tells me there's a few major organisations out there that
>> won't allow that to happen for "business reasons".  I'm interested to
>> know what they do with InnoDB though...
>>
>> M.
> What about open / star office and other open source software

Who knows...although I'd wager that OpenOffice has almost reached  
critical mass and that Oracle would be very interested in either  
supplying or selling a competing product to MS Office alongside two  
database engines that can rival MSSQL.

M.
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