Oracle Acquisitions are not about MySQL: He refutes my theory.
Trying to put MySQL out of business would be a fairly short-term tactical move. I think Oracle is looking 5 years down the road and seeing what the world looks like as the commoditization of enterprise scale infrastructure software components continues. They’re seeing that they “own” a progressively smaller piece of that pie unless they act soon. The rumors of Oracle eyeing JBoss and others are completely in line with this thinking.
There can be no doubt now: Oracle is trying to destroy MySQL. Consider: They buy Innobase, the company responsible for the back end data format that makes MySQL go. They forge a partnership with Zend, the company responsible for PHP, which is the lanuguage most often used with MySQL on the…