Someone on Kictanet just said this to me.. Al Kags, Its not such a bad thing and I would grieve so much about this transaction. Of course even Oracle still gives out the XE edition ( http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html) for free the free version of their multimillion $$ Oracle database and MySQL standard edition is still there to save us. Taking away MySQL off the picture leaves us with the very powerful PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/) so for now am still not crying so much. The time to go scream over my pillow is yet to come but as a precaution am downloading everything opensource and keeping it in my small data centre for future use when people are acquired. Al Kags ----------------------- Author, Living Memories. “IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS Kenya, these stories belong to us all, just as the pictures in Kenya Burning document the trauma of a nation during the post-election violence. The age of history written by white males is well and truly over.” - Star Columnist, Betty Caplan in the East African Weekly Newspaper. http://living.alkags.com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
It is not the end of Open Source, rather the end of Jonathan 'My Little Poney' Shwartz and Scott McNealy as we know them.
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