Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

From: "Denis Lussier" <denis(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL advocacy" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
Date: 2005-10-07 22:00:50
Message-ID: B319CFEC3B80D3408CA36F99ADE840940F2C31@edb-dc1.Edb-net.EnterpriseDB.com
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It may be hard for u to resist if those wacky guyz from Redwood offered eight figures (and I'm not counting the ones to the right of the decimal point).

--Luss

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From: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Marc G. Fournier
Sent: Fri 10/7/2005 4:14 PM
To: Bruce Momjian
Cc: Jim C. Nasby; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; PostgreSQL advocacy
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> What is our vulnerability? Oracle offering big-money jobs to PostgreSQL
> developers. I think that is our only weakness, unless they buy Marc
> (Marc, are you for sale? :-) ) and own the domains and trademark.

I'm not for sale, else I would have sold a *long* time ago ...

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