<story><title>Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morgo</author><text>MySQL has done well also.&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I work on this team.  Take a look at new features in 5.7 for example:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>cowmix</author><text>VirtualBox has done quite well under Oracle.</text></item><item><author>DoubleMalt</author><text>At least it is not a software I use an like, that is devoured by Oracle this time.&lt;p&gt;(Of course Oracle makes great stuff. In a company as big as Oracle, there are always niches that create great things. But most offerings are dreadful. And most open source acquisitions did not fare especially well under Oracle)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>Really great to see native JSON support in MYSQL finally.&lt;p&gt;Also, &amp;quot;Random password generated by default on installation&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This has been a long time coming. I can&amp;#x27;t tell you how many mysql servers I&amp;#x27;ve cracked into with &amp;quot;root&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morgo</author><text>MySQL has done well also.&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I work on this team.  Take a look at new features in 5.7 for example:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>cowmix</author><text>VirtualBox has done quite well under Oracle.</text></item><item><author>DoubleMalt</author><text>At least it is not a software I use an like, that is devoured by Oracle this time.&lt;p&gt;(Of course Oracle makes great stuff. In a company as big as Oracle, there are always niches that create great things. But most offerings are dreadful. And most open source acquisitions did not fare especially well under Oracle)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xmohit</author><text>This is fantastic.  It&amp;#x27;d be good see more products list new features (and changes) so nicely, especially those links to the manual.  Thanks for the list.&lt;p&gt;Couldn&amp;#x27;t help posting it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12181637&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12181637&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>