Oracle's acquisition of open-source database vendors is moving closer to the open-source movement _ MySQL

Oracle, the database giant, has acquired InnobaseOy, a Finnish company closely related to MySQL, an open-source database vendor. The parties did not announce the specific terms of the transaction. Innobase is a database engine developed by InnoDB for storing data in MySQL databases. InnoDB adopts the GPL license protocol and is bound to the MySQL database. Oracle

Oracle, a database giant, has acquired Innobase Oy, a Finnish company closely related to MySQL, an open-source database vendor. The parties did not announce the specific terms of the transaction.

Innobase is a database engine developed by InnoDB for storing data in MySQL databases. InnoDB adopts the GPL license protocol and is bound to the MySQL database.

Oracle said the acquisition showed it is increasingly "dancing" with open-source products ".

Charles, executive vice president of Oracle's database and middleware technology, said in a statement that Oracle will continue to develop InnoDB technology and increase its commitment to open source software. We have developed and released the open source code cluster file system on the Linux platform. in the future, we will release more open source code products.

Oracle said that when the agreement expires next year, it will continue to maintain the relationship between Innobase and MySQL.

In a statement issued last Saturday, MySQL said that Oracle's initiatives recognized the open source code movement. MySQL CEO Micos said the advantage of open source software and GPL license is freedom.

Like MySQL, InnoDB also adopts the GPL license protocol, which means that users can freely use, develop, and modify code. In addition, this means that database developers can use MySQL and Oracle products in the same environment more flexibly.

In addition to InnoDB, the customer can select different database storage engines for MySQL.

In the fierce competition of open-source products, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft have successively reduced the price of database products and developed low-price versions for small enterprises.