On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Vamsee Kanakala <[email protected]>wrote:
But, Oracle has nothing comparable to that record, nor was it shy to kill > off its previous acquisitions like Siebel and JD Edwards. > Who said so? Not sure whether you know : http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/open-source/index.htm SIebel/JD Edawards/PeopleSoft Entreprise Suites are still supported and new releases being launched. (IF i am right, PeopleSoft HCM was launched in Sep 2009 and so is the case with the other Suites). OTOH, every product has a life cycle. I wont be a spokesperson for any company as such, but as far i have seen, all the acquisitions, whomsoever it might be, undergo 'transformations' or 'integrations'. At the end of the day some products die (for eg. del.icio.us by Y!) whereas some go onto become kickass product(GEarth). Remeber that SeaDragon by M$ is yet to become 'big' whereas the acquisition happened years ago. BerkeleyDB is still a kicka$$ product and is still open sourced and is developed/supported actively. The Oracle Technology Network(OTN) is extremely active and is supported very nicely. The product life cycle is more apparent in bigger products/companies. Moreover, in the Enterprise segment, the ball game is NOT the same as developing a 'website' or a widget. I work on a product that is 15-20 years old and have seen it change with the evolving technologies. From some neanderthal era to the best h/w and s/w technologies and it continues to evolve. Basically, acquisitions/consolidation is bound to happen whichever space it might be. Accepting it and trudging along and devicing a suitable game plan is to be every project's strategy. You should remember Linus's comment on M$ and take things in the true spirit of technology. -V- PS : I am not into OSS/ FOSS debate here. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
