mySQL & Oracle

(via Cédric) Jim Gray [Links gone]:

“Larry Ellison announced that Oracle is now running entirely on Linux. But he didn’t say, “Incidentally we’re going to run all of Oracle on MySQL on Linux.” If you just connected the dots, that would be the next sentence in the paragraph. But he didn’t say that, so I believe that Larry actually thinks Oracle will have a lot more value than MySQL has. I do not understand why he thinks the Linux problems are fixable and the MySQL problems are not.”