Oracle is too smart to take steps that would make it unpopular with the open-source community, he said, agreeing with Sleepycat's chief executive officer that the acquisition will probably be a net positive for its software's development.
With Oracle's track record for buying companies, it's not out of the question they could still be in talks to buy JBoss and Zend Technologies, Mitchell added.
"They have an incredibly slick acquisitions team," he said.
Sleepycat's Olsen discussed the deal in his blog Tuesday.
"We're joining Oracle because we believe the opportunity in embedded data management is too big for us to handle on our own," he wrote, pointing to the variety of computer systems that have proliferated in the past decade, from Web servers to PDAs (personal digital assistants).
Each type of system offers an opportunity for data management by some form of the Berkeley DB, he wrote. Sleepycat already offers three products -- Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Berkeley JE (Java Edition). As part of Oracle, it will have a much wider range of products to offer customers, he wrote.
One of the original authors of Berkeley DB, Olson said Sleepycat remains committed to open source and has no plans to change the strategy now that it is part of Oracle.
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