"Oracle's done it again. Not only has it acquired another company, but in the process it has riled up the open source community once more.
"If your mind was made up already, then Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat last week doubtless seemed like yet more evidence that the database vendor has it in for its open source rival, MySQL. But to me, not only is that kind of thinking not particularly productive, but it isn't particularly insightful, either..."