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Oracle has announced the acquisition of long-time open source database supplier Sleepycat Software. "Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB is the most widely used open source database in the world with deployments estimated at more than 200 million. Berkeley DB is distributed under a dual license model, i.e. available under a public license and also available under a commercial license. Well-known open source projects such as the Linux and BSD UNIX operating systems, Apache web server, OpenLDAP directory, OpenOffice productivity software, and many others embed Berkeley DB technology." Terms not disclosed. Also not disclosed is whether there will be any changes in the Berkeley DB licensing terms.

Oracle previously bought Innobase, the company behind InnoDB (the store engine that plugs MySQL most of the times), and is currently looking for spare change in their pockets to buy JBoss.

Maybe they will buy http://www.terra.es to round it up all...

Now an open question is how many companies will arise from the people with newly found deep-pockets that have sold their companies, to start up new companies, to be recursely bought again by a megalomonster company... and so on,

and on and on,

and on and on,

and on and on,

and on and on,

and on and on...

posted by avilella  # 5:33 PM