Sending the penguins out with a hot foot
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| Let's clear something up right away: Larry Ellison's blockbuster
| announcement earlier this week wasn't meant to choke the life
| out of the open-source movement. But as it concerns the fate
| of commercial open-source companies--well, that is an entirely
| different matter.
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| [...]
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| "This is capitalism, we are competing," Ellison later said during
| the question-and-answer session following his announcement. "We are trying
| to offer a better product at a lower price."
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Easy when you just nick your rival's code and strip off all the trademarked
bits.
http://news.com.com/2010-7344_3-6130041.html?part=rss&tag=6130041&subj=news
Another perspective:
Oracle's Linux Announcement: A Load of Bull?
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| Larry's quote is the most interesting: "We believe that better
| support and lower support prices will speed the adoption of Linux,
| and we are working closely with our partners to make that happen."
|
| Well, I guess they're working with some of their partners, but, I
| doubt that Red Hat is one of them. Essentially, Oracle is taking
| the work that Red Hat is doing and charging less for it in an
| attempt to bypass Red Hat as a vendor.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061027/19386_id.html?.v=1
Oracle alienates the industry it serves, so MySQL AB is likely to flourish,
along with purely FOSS projects. Google faces similar issues, IMO.
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