[jdefarge]

Oracle is doing a NoSQL as a strategic move. They'd done this before with the acquisitions of BerkeleyDB's and Coherence's companies. But their cash cow will continue to be their ubiquitous RDBMS for many years to come. You know, just in case the world wakes up one day and falls in love with NoSQL, they will have something to sell under this brand.

I deal with passionate Oracle RDBMS users on a daily basis and (very good) technologies as BerkeleyDB and Coherence are nothing but esoteric toys they will hardly use anytime soon. So will be this NoSQL database that will probably be given away as open source.