Four days after commenting on Oracle’s purchasing rumors of three companies, one of them has been confirmed. Sleepycat was purchased by Oracle today. The official announcement has virtually no details other than to confirm the transaction.
One can’t help but think that Oracle is giving MySQL every reason to just give up and be purchased by Oracle. As an outsider it sure looks like MySQL is the main target to either be bought or crushed by Oracle. One of the comments on Jeremy’s post about the Sleepycat purchase even suggests that MySQL was able to secure an additional $18.5 million in funding because of the potential return when/if Oracle buys MySQL.
We’ll have to wait and see if the rumors about JBoss and Zend turn out to true.