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Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB. MySQL AB, the independent firm, never owned the core technology upon which their product depended. Oracle has had a death grip on MySQL for years. Sun also had a competing product at the time of their MySQL AB acquisition: Their Postgresql consulting/support group. Nothing happened to it when they bought MySQL AB. Large companies can sustain heteroge…
>>Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB I don't keep us as well as I should. Falcon seemed like the upcoming champion (the ideas seemed relevant for modern systems) and I thought it ought to be a good/better substitute for InnoDB. It didn't work well enough? I guess it is just an academic question, now.
Now that it's all under the same roof, it's moot.