On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 > Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic moves-- > > similar to Microsoft corp-- and to try to monetize many users who are now > > locked in onto LAMP. > [...] > > Would you care to explain how exactly people are "locked into > LAMP", and why Oracle "monetizing" them is a good thing for > people at large? > (1) How are people "locked into Lamp" ? --> because many people/sites use Drupal, Joomla, PHP etc-- and incase a particular platform vendor decides to fork the offering into a premium and non-premium offering; then it is easier for them to pay for premium service than to take the risk of re-engineering tens of thousands of code to use a different underlying platform component eg: database. (2) Why good for people at large-- well; I nevva said good for ppl at large-- it's just that it's a amazing and exciting opportunity for the people at oracle to experiment and be totally experimental and out of the box about their strategy and approach-- because it's not as if there's a salesforce chasing the existing customers that will rebel. Customer discontent not having as loud a political voice--- can simmer for longer-- and can be handled more cheaply. This is almost as exciting a strategy experiment opportunity that the people at microsoft had. Best Regards, NS _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
