[kwlug-disc] Newbie... Playing with Linux etc...

[Raul Suarez]

Is it that difficult to figure it out?

It is premium support.

- Java consulting;
- MySQL Consulting;
- Solaris as a hook to buy into a holistic Oracle solution that includes HW.
- Selling Solutions, instead of selling software and hardware (Duh!)
- Sub-licensing the support contracts and leverage their investment.

I mean, there are so many ways it surprises me they are deliberating.

When companies require the support, they pretty much say "Hey, take my money, solve my problem".

Raul Suarez

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Software, Hardware and Practices
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--- On Fri, 4/16/10, Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net> wrote:

> From: Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Newbie... Playing with Linux etc...
> To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Received: Friday, April 16, 2010, 4:31 PM
> A slashdot article is saying that
> /Now Oracle wants the community to prove that open source
> can be made profitable <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-April/007767.html>.
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/16/190256/Oracle-Wants-Proof-That-Open-Source-Is-Profitable
> 
> /I think this goes right back to the basic problem of
> different objectives/monitary systems.
> 
> Open Source has a monetary system based on code. A
> corperation has a monetary system based on dollars. If all
> the people who are involved in an open source project are
> hired by one company, how can a project be forked in order
> to keep it open source? The brains needed to maintain the
> project are competing against their own workplace, and I'm
> sure non-compete clauses would limit them. So the brains
> have to come from an outside source. 
> 
> /
> /Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net
> <mailto:cbruner at quadro.net>>
> wrote:
> > 
> >     John Van Ostrand wrote:
> > 
> >         Terry, I
> appreciate the point of view of not blindly
> >         defaulting to
> the common choice. I also have that pet peeve as
> >         well, just not
> about MySQL.
> >          
> >     Any thoughts about Oracle and
> mysql, and the possible future
> >     problems with that?
> > 
> > 
> > I am going to cover some of that in my presentation on
> May 3rd.
> > 
> > In a nutshell:
> > 
> > Oracle already owned the transactional InnoDB engine
> that MySQL runs
> > on for several years, before they acquired Sun. If
> they had wanted to kill
> > MySQL then, it would have been easy to do it. They did
> not.
> > 
> > More importantly, MySQL is GPL. Oracle can only change
> the license for
> > future versions, but can't retake what is already out
> there. There are several
> > community efforts based on the GPL version (will
> detail them in the
> > presentation).
> > 
> > Oracle can be several things, but they are not dumb.
> They know that there
> > is a market that their own DB can never dominate (web
> sites, startups, ...),
> > so they seem to want to keep MySQL alive for this, and
> perhaps have an
> > easy migration path to their own DB when someone
> outgrows MySQL.
> > 
> > If you were in their place, would you kill MySQL only
> to see PostgreSQL
> > take its place in that market place? These users will
> never go from
> > cheap/free and open source to expensive and closed
> source and dependent
> > on a commercial product. Or do you try to influence
> what is there?
> > 
> > As always, time will tell ...
> > -- Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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> > http://2bits.com
> > Drupal optimization, development, customization and
> consulting.
> > Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- 
> Edsger W.Dijkstra
> > Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
> --   Leonardo da Vinci
> >
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