[salsakran]

Oracle has been doing NoSQL since before NoSQL was cool.

They've had BerkeleyDB since 2006. The real issue is not technology so much as economics. The heart of the matter is that no startup is going to shell out what Oracle wants for licensing/support contracts.

[mschireson]

Yes, the big question is whether it will be open source. I have no insight into that, waiting to see along with everyone else.

[salsakran]

It's Oracle ... whatcha want exactly? It'll be big, and technically splendiforous and hideously expensive.