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Re: Is Oracle's Latest Move Proof of Proprietary Software Failure or Capitalistic Ethics Failure?

  • Subject: Re: Is Oracle's Latest Move Proof of Proprietary Software Failure or Capitalistic Ethics Failure?
  • From: "billwg" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 27 Oct 2006 07:49:34 -0700
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> Oracle alienates the industry it serves, so MySQL AB is likely to flourish,
> along with purely FOSS projects. Google faces similar issues, IMO.

Oracle has clout because of the ineffectiveness of MySQL or any other
database save DB2 to handle real-world problems in the unix/linux
environment.  People need Oracle a lot worse than they need linux.

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