Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here’s what happened as it happened, including Berkeley DB, Oracle VM, InnoDB, and what Oracle really thinks of MySQL. NB All comments are paraphrased unless direct quote marks are used.

The players:
Ken Jacobs, VP of product strategy, server technologies division.
Omar Tazi, chief open source evangelist
Mike Olson, VP embedded technology, former Sleepycat CEO
Ed Screven, chief corporate architect
(Moderating) Monica Kumar, senior director product marketing, Linux and open source
Wim Coekaerts, VP of Linux engineering, corporate architecture

MK: How does Berkeley DB fit into the product portfolio? Any changes since acquired by Oracle?

MO: Berkeley DB is aimed at a very different kind of user. Built by programmers for programmers providing Low level persistence. Distributed …