Doc, That's an interesting comparison, because you are right -- Oracle and Microsoft actually have similar strategies around open source.
IBM makes most of its revenue around services, software, and hardware. Sun, from services and hardware sales. While Oracle and MS have software as their core business. So they have more to lose from commoditization of software. I'd rather think it's less of greed and more of not killing the golden goose. On 3/31/09, Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sun will probably have the greatest contributions to the free software > community, with NFS, Java, OpenOffice, etc. Next comes IBM with > Eclipse, Apache, etc. Oracle and Microsoft are probably the richest > corporate software entities, but their "give-away" software (not to > mention free and open source software) only make an insignificant dent > to their corporate profits. > > Should we talk about corporate greed here? > > Pablo Manalastas > *** > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
