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[News] Oracle's Freeloading Denials; Senior Oracle Executive Escapes to FOSS

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Oracle: Eating its Own Open Source Food

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| Coekaerts said the critical thing for Oracle is to actively contribute to the 
| Linux and virtualization communities that serve as the base for Oracle's open 
| source offerings. That doesn't mean he necessarily agrees with what other 
| vendors, in particular Red Hat and XenSource are doing, even though the 
| company works with both of their open source products. The ultimate impact of 
| Oracle's open source effort could well lead to a broader use of Linux and Xen 
| or it could lead to greater fragmentation among the various open source 
| groups supporting the two projects.       
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3745021/Oracle+Eating+its+Own+Open+Source+Food.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5tnu6j

After Oracle, Former Sleepycat CEO Hunts For Next Gig

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| Olson hasn't previously commented on his experience but Matt Asay, VP of 
| business development at Alfresco and organizer of the annual Open Source 
| Business Conference in San Francisco, had this to say about Olson in a blog 
| Feb. 7: "I've never heard a negative word out of his mouth about his two-year 
| stay with Oracle, either in public or private. Mike is class and gave to his 
| employer what was due..."     
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207501602

It seems like he's getting back to FOSS with clouds.


Related:

Why does Larry Ellison have a Red Hat fetish?

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| Larry doesn't understand open source. This isn't surprising since the people 
| who report to him apparently don't, either (though I don't include Mike Olson 
| in that crowd - he's a victim of golden handcuffs :-). Oracle desperately 
| wants open source to be "just another tool" that it uses for IT domination. 
| It's not. It actually has the opposite effect.    
| 
| Oracle just can't grok this.
| 
| It wants to own the Linux kernel. It can't. It wanted to own JBoss. It 
| couldn't. Open source is about controlling through sharing, but Oracle 
| doesn't do the "share" thing very well.  
| 
| And so we'll have to sporadically endure Mr. Ellison's ego pronouncing 
| himself god of the Linux world, despite his Linux business being so anemic  
| that he won't break out its numbers. If the numbers are so great, report 
| them, Mr. Ellison. (Having said this, it's important to note that Oracle 
| stopped breaking out revenue by product line many years ago.)   
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9817945-16.html?tag=head


Larry Ellison thrashes Red Hat

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| "At Oracle we've been in the Linux business for a year now," he said.
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| "With the Red Hat code all we did for the first year was fix bugs. Now Oracle 
| growing a lot faster than Red Hat. Red Hat's been growing too because it’s a 
| growing market."  
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http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2203490/ellison-aims-red-hat
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