Remember IBM picking up Gluecode, Well here is the next one...along the same lines ...Oracle Corp. pciked up Finnish open-source database technology developer Innobase OY company founded in 1995.

Innobase OY are the developers of InnoDB (Table Storage Engine). Among MySQL users, the separately-written InnoDB is almost as popular as the native MyISAM engine, and is considered to be more advanced for most purposes.InnoDB is not a standalone database product: it is distributed as a part of the MySQL database.

Brian Aker, current Director of Architecture for MySQL AB, comments: "InnoDB is GPL, so once again the beauty of the open source market is at play: there is no lock in, and we can continue to develop Innodb as we see fit. The code is out there and we plan on continuing to support it. The largest database vendor in the world just confirmed that the market for open source databases exists."

"Innobase is an innovative small company that develops open source database technology. Oracle intends to continue developing the InnoDB technology and expand our commitment to open source software. Oracle has already developed and contributed an open source clustered file system to Linux. We expect to make additional contributions in the future." Charles Rozwat, Oracle's Executive Vice President in charge of Database and Middleware Technology.

The press release for the same at the ORACLE website.

Prashanth RaiTag(s):Oracle, Open Source & M&A