__/ [GreyCloud] on Friday 10 February 2006 03:40 \__
> Larry Qualig wrote:
>
>> B Gruff wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060209_810527.htm
>>>
>>>" The open-source community may be in for a jolt. Oracle (ORCL) is
>>>plotting what could be the biggest endorsement yet by a mainstream
>>>software company for a movement that involves legions of developers across
>>>the globe who publish "open" software distributed freely over the Net,
>>>making money instead from support and maintenance"
>>>
>>>"Oracle's Ellison girded investors for an open-source push at a Feb. 8
>>>conference in Santa Monica, Calif., saying, "We are moving aggressively
>>>into open source. We are embracing it. We are not going to fight this
>>>trend. We think if we're clever, we can make it work to our advantage.""
To ours too.
>> You're timing couldn't be any better. I was just at MarketWatch.com (
>> http://www.marketwatch.com ) looking at the financial news and
>> headlines. The headline on the site in GREAT BIG TEXT says "Oracle cuts
>> jobs."
>>
>> Thought it was rather ironic, that's all.
Financially-speaking, this move to Open Source might not be a wise one. I am
not sure investors would be happy either. MySQL (and potentially PostgreSQL)
is biting at Oracle's business, among others.
http://www.builderau.com.au/architect/database/soa/Road_test_Four_databases_tested/0,39024547,39224962,00.htm
(MySQL is superior to databases from Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft)
The days of capitalising on simple query-based data fetch are over.
It wasn't long ago that Oracle made their lighter databases (1 processor)
free with the attempt to achieve customer lock-in earlier on. That attempt
exposes a true weakness. They are giving their product for free, hoping that
they can extract a few pennies in return.
> Now they are giving it away on any Sun servers sold.
> I even have three different Oracle CDs for older version of Linux, NT,
> and Solaris. Never used them.
They are utterly useless with MySQL around. Put them in your drive and,
before you know it, your data is locked.
Best wishes,
Roy
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