Whilst MySQL and Oracle are not exactly direct competitors, those of a more cynical disposition would expect Oracle to kill off the competing database.

虽然MySQL和Oracle公司不是完全直接的竞争对手，有人认为Oracle可以会危及竞争对手的数据库。

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So if Oracle were to rein in MySQL, the software's community of developers and users could always create and promote an alternative.

所以如果甲骨文成功接管，软件社区里的开发人员和用户依然可以开发、推广新型可替代产品。

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For Oracle, DB2 or MySQL database, you need to use the generic resource adapter that allows you to specify the driver and ConnectionURL for the JDBC driver (Listing 5).

对于Oracle、DB 2或MySQL数据库，您需要使用一般资源适配器，它允许您为JDBC驱动程序指定Driver和ConnectionURL(清单5)。

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It is hard to find anyone in the technology business who is prepared to argue that MySQL and Oracle really compete or ever will.

ECONOMIST: Oracle and Sun Microsystems

For one thing, it says, MySQL and Oracle's databases do not compete: the former is a relatively simple program used by many websites, while the latter is complex software that underpins corporate applications.

ECONOMIST: Oracle and Sun Microsystems

Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.

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