RE: SAP Hands SAP DB over to MySQL

Maybe it is just so they can continue to say they're "not a database company" (insert sound of condescension) to emphasize their "focus on applications excellence" in the veiled jabs they continue to make at Oracle. On the other hand, I can't imagine they would give up development control because they do make a specialized version of SAP DB for "object oriented" programming (they say they couldn't find a product that worked "correctly"...).

Kip

|I dunno. Though both want to make a profit ( and rightly so ) SAP
|doesn't seem to have the same mercenary mentality that MS has.

|Jared

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|Reminiscent of the M$/Sybase "partnership?"

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|At http://www.sapdb.org/7.4/pdf/sapdb_letter.pdf SAP offers "clarification:"

|SAP:
|"Contrary to erroneous press reports, SAP AG has not given up any rights
|concerning the SAP DB code base nor handed over or even sold SAP DB to
|MySQL AB."

|SAP:
|"SAP AG remains responsible for ongoing development and support."

|CNet:
|"MySQL will take over most of the development of SAP DB."

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|The past few months I've been wondering when MySQL would start
|putting pressure on Oracle in the same way that Linux is putting
|pressure on MS.

|Maybe sooner than you think:

|http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1010522.html?tag=fd_top

|Jared

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