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Oracle acquires Sleepycat, Berkeley DB

by Jordan Running on February 15, 2006 at 10:25 AM

Following rumors that it was shopping around for open source companies, database juggernaut Oracle has acquired Sleepycat Software, makers of the open source Berkeley DB. Berkeley DB is included in a number of open source products including many Linux distributions and OpenOffice.org. Last week Oracle was also rumored to have its eye on JBoss and PHP mother company Zend Technologies. The terms of the deal, and what it means for the future of Berkeley DB, are unknown.

Tags: acquisition, berkeley, database, open source, opensource, oracle, sleepycat

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Kris LeeFeb 15th 2006 2:48PM

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I think this is bad news because Oracle tend to turn nice products into something, well not so usable. Their only goal seams to be to earn new billions to mister Elliot fancy habits.

(Of cource Oracle databases are still good for enterprices with huge data capabilities)

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