Oracle buying Sun Microsystems is already stale news. However, this merger news will keep ringing for a while. It is not only products that are changing hands here, they are huge and deep ecosystems which have impacted most of the programming world, across products, corporates and competitions. [Continue]
MySQL has not had its native storage engine until recent times. It supported various engines like MyISAM, InnoDB and BerkleyDB through plugins and the users could choose one of them. Oracle acquired both, InnoDB and BerkleyDB through their purchase of Innosoft in late 2005 and Sleepycat in early 2006. [Continue]