On 04 21, 09, at 12:30 PM, Orlando Andico wrote: > that "screwed per core licensing" is what enables oracle to turn huge > profits and buy other companies. And oracle's customers are paying up. > It's like Cornelius Vanderbilt said, if you have to ask, you can't > afford it. >
of course ;) profit is what makes the world go round. that's how they make their bread and cheese, no one should fault oracle for that. they simply need to go to another vendor. > I believe mysql will continue on: after all oracle purchased sleepycat > several years ago and it's still open source. More importantly, it > also turns a profit. > MariaDB is a sort of fork... of MySQL right? anyway there are other DBs around that can compete with MySQL. PostgreSQL for example. > Correction according to a WSJ article on the deal, oracle wanted java, > solaris, and mysql. The supposed deal 2 months ago (pre IBM offer) > was for oracle to get these 3 software pillars, and HP to get the > hardware biz. But sun turned out to be too complex to divvy up. > Yep. this is shot against IBM. Cocoy www.twitter.com/cocoy "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" -- Alan Kay _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
