Oracle buys Innobase

October 9, 2005 US-based Oracle Corporation announced Friday it had acquired  for an undisclosed sum. Innobase is a Finnish company that has developed several  technologies. They are best known for.

InnoDB is an add-on storage engine for used by many popular websites, including, EDS/Sabre, Yahoo Finance, Google and Wikimedia. It is an open source tool, distributed under the (GPL).

“Oracle has long been a supporter of open source software such as Linux and. 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.” said Charles Rozwat, executive vice president of Database and Technology at Oracle.

Innobase is the 11th company to be acquired by Oracle in under a year. The most recent acquisition was of rival on September 13 for $5.85 billion.