[ramanujan]

Datastax, Datastax. Must have appeared 20 times in the piece. I'm sure they are a great company but Oracle's real problem is Postgres (and, to a lesser extent, SQLite and the various MySQL forks). Oracle might want to consider paying $1B to the Postgres devs to sidetrack development for a few years like they did with MySQL.

[masklinn]

> Oracle might want to consider paying $1B to the Postgres devs

There's no single Postgres dev, it's been community-driven from the start and the various postgres companies mostly provide support. So there's nobody to pay $1bn to really.

If you look at the contributors page[0], out of 6 "core devs" there are 5 different companies, with EnterpriseDB being "overrepresented" at 2 core from the company, plus a pair of "major contributors" out of a truckload.

And these people are probably Postgres devs first and foremost. Not Tom Lane or Josh Berkus, but even if Oracle bought out EnterpriseDB they might just cash in and work on Postgres from an other company.

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

[mbesto]

MySQL is a very very small drop in the ocean that is Oracle. Competing with Postgres is a non-issue for them. Oracle's big problem is SAP.[1]

[1]http://www.informationweek.co.uk/software/enterprise-applica...