Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Oracle Acquires Rather Than Opening Up

  • Subject: [News] Oracle Acquires Rather Than Opening Up
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:37:05 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
BEA playing 'The Price Is Right' with Mephistopheles

,----[ Quote ]
| Oracle plays hardball. It's a company born to lead the proprietary world and 
| to strive unsuccessfully to work with the open-source world. Why? Because you 
| can't force your affections upon open-source communities. Open source demands 
| trust and cooperation. Oracle does many things exceptionally well. Just not 
| these two critical components of open source.    
`----

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9803377-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog

Friends of Linux (maybe), but not open source.


Related:

MySQL bites Oracle before Oracle bites it

,----[ Quote ]
| In a pre-emptive strike against Oracle, database vendor MySQL has
| launched its first site-wide license and support package, pricing
| it the same as a single Oracle CPU database license.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/mysql_oracle_support/


Will Oracle launch Unbreakable MySQL?

,----[ Quote ]
| "They have hinted to us that they will," said Mickos, indicating
| that the database giant is planning to repeat its October 2006
| Unbreakable Linux plan, which saw it undercut Red Hat with
| enterprise Linux support.
`----

http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/will_oracle_lau.html

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index