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Oracle Acquires developer Innobase

Oracle Corporation announced last weekend the acquisition of Finland-based Innobase OY. Innobase is a developer of discrete transactional database technology, "InnoDB", that is distributed under an open source license. InnoDB is not a standalone database product: it is distributed as a part of the MySQL database.

"Innobase is an innovative small company that develops open source database technology. Oracle intends to continue developing the InnoDB technology and expand our commitment to open source software," says Charles Rozwat, Oracle`s Executive Vice President in charge of Database and Middleware Technology.

"Oracle has already developed and contributed an open source clustered file system to Linux. We expect to make additional contributions in the future," Rozwat concluded.