On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:24:29PM -0400, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> On 10/8/05, Thomas F. O'Connell <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > All of which seems to beg the question: why did not MySQL buy
> > Innobase themselves? As far as I've read, the terms of the
> > transaction were not disclosed. I guess it's possible that MySQL
> > didn't have the financial reach to pull off the deal.
>
> Well, if I was Oracle and had a sneaky idea, I would *first* get
> Innobase Oy under NDA, and *then* start acquisition talks...
>
> Oracle has done enough business over the years to know that a bidding
> war would have put them in a horrible position, possibly an
> unrecoverable one. The somewhat muted reaction from MySQL leaves me
> the impression that they were blindsided.
How would a bidding war put them in a horrible position? Whatever they
paid for Innobase is pocket-change. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that
Larry paid more for his jet than he/Oracle paid for Innobase.
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