On Jun 4, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > > Personally, I think Oracle's choice had more to do with IBM's > recommendation, than taxes. >
I've been told that Oracle and TDF *were* in discussions but that the demands by TDF were sufficiently unpalatable to Oracle as to prevent any sort of agreement... IBM may have strongly suggested the ASF as a backup, but we were the runner-up in a sense. Taxes were not an issue... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org