Venkatraman S wrote:
I think both are different strategies for OSS. And OSS needs both. Kind
without Money is no use.
Okay, I feel a flame coming on - apologies in advance :). Ah, I'm not so
sure - there are plenty of projects that survive without taking Oracle's
or some other corporate entity's money. Yes, obviously industry drives
adoption, and there should always be synergy - but I don't think any
open source project will die just for the lack sponsorship of a big
corporate entity. That's not their raison d'etre.
COMPLETELY WRONG. Check out the feature list before commenting. PeopleSoft
HCM and other suites are getting some BIG makeovers. Siebel CRM is being
adopted in a big way. These acquisitions were targeted before Oracle Fusion
for their own strategic reasons.
I don't know man. I don't know or care about Oracle's product map or how
much of it constitutes FOSS. I don't think I cared about the company
since my college days. Isn't that kind of the point? That the company
has no relevance to this audience?
I hope you noticed that PPLSoft's HCM release in Sep'09 was done despite the
fact that Fusion is around the corner; this itself would convey loads.
Again, my eyes glaze over, I have no clue what you're talking about :)
IMHO (and lets face it with an open mind): Oracle's DB technology is
lightyears ahead of the other solutions in the market and i am not sure how
many lightyears it will take for others to reach that stature/customer base.
Sure, the banks and credit card processors who need it maybe will fork
over the truckloads of money if they think they're getting the value. If
so, sure. So if Oracle is indeed light years ahead, why bother about a
puny, hobbled open source database used by, I don't know, millions of
tiny websites? What value can MySQL possibly hold for the cash-munching
super-advanced db technology company? ;-)
Vamsee.
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