Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

Paul wrote:

> Couldn't it be like, say, QuickSort? Nobody has to get permission to
> do a QuickSort. Would one need to be worried about patents if one were
> to implement a database with a locking mechanism?
>
>
> Paul...

I'm not an attorney. I've heard Oracle acquired the patents. Have they expired? Perhaps. Perhaps Oracle filed for extensions: I don't know.

 From what I've seen of SQL Server 2005 Microsoft's methodology is not a clone ... as they appear to eat massive amounts of CPU to do what Oracle does with grace and ease.

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