sun acquires MySQL

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Robin Laing írta:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>   just wondering how this will affect MySQL's availability WRT fedora.
>>>
>>> http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/
>>
>> As long as it remain open source (and I have no reason to doubt 
>> that), I don't see any reason for a change in availability.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>
> As one discussion that I read, this could be a great move.  MySQL 
> could be integrated into OpenOffice instead of base.  Could be real 
> competition to MS Office as a full suite.

Base is a client, although it has its own db engine. Just as Access.
Both can access real servers via some connector, like ODBC.