Someone on Kictanet just said this to me..<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Al Kags,<br><br>Its not such a bad thing and I would grieve so much about this transaction.<br>

<br>Of course even Oracle still gives out the XE edition (<a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html</a>) for free the free version of their multimillion $$ Oracle database and MySQL standard edition is still there to save us.<br>

<br>Taking away MySQL off the picture leaves us with the very powerful PostgreSQL (<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.postgresql.org/</a>) 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.</span></div>

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</span></font>Al Kags<br>-----------------------<br>Author, Living Memories.<br>“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.<br>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Philip Musyoki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pmusyoki@gmail.com">pmusyoki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

It is not the end of Open Source, rather the end of Jonathan &#39;My Little Poney&#39; Shwartz and Scott McNealy as we know them.<br>
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