Tweets for 2009-04-20
- Can Oracle describe succinctly what business it is in ? #
- Oracle buys Sun. Whither MySQL ? #
- Peoplesoft, Siebel, BEA, Sun. Is Oracle the resting place of companies n technologies with a starred history and scarred present ? #
- Blog post title looking for content : “Why Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is great news for Java and MySQL developers” #
- @sbidwai Hmm, .. seems the point I was making was lost. in reply to sbidwai #
- @bhavis No. I was making a point through subtle sarcasm. I am concerned innovation will be hurt (far more on MySQL front). in reply to bhavis #
- @santoshpanda fork it ?? (has occured once). Tough to work on a software which is meant to take on the parent company’s software. in reply to santoshpanda #
- @Mendelt Absolutely. Thats the only way its authors can retain any enthusiasm towards it. in reply to Mendelt #
- @Mendelt Precisely. They will weigh the cost and benefits of investing in MySQL in measurable $ terms. The MySQL arm doesnt add $ to Oracle. in reply to Mendelt #
- @santoshpanda sure .. that could be a possibility in reply to santoshpanda #
- Suddenly the proprietary database on google app engine doesn’t sound that unattractive
#partially-in-jest # - @dushyanth non RDBMS DB adoption definitely on the rise. This news certainly won’t hurt the trend but just might help it. in reply to dushyanth #
- @debasishg I would go by natural not idiomatic. eg. if only data n no natural container especially with any associated behaviour. ..contd.. in reply to debasishg #
- @debasishg it is natural imo for a function which computes mean & std dev of a list of vals to return a Tuple2 of the same. in reply to debasishg #
- Stephen Hawking very ill http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/20/hawking.health/index.html (via @hiway) #