Comments on: Of Oracle, Sun and Open Development

By: Are liberal licenses a better future proofing? - Technology

Are liberal licenses a better future proofing? - Technology — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:00:40 +0000

[...] conference, I looked up Gianugo Rabellino’s blog and read his then most recent blog article, "Of Oracle, Sun and Open Development" about the impact of M&A on open source investment protection. The conclusion I draw from his [...]

By: niq

niq — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:29:34 +0000

Interesting thesis. Sufficiently interesting I felt compelled to respond: http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/he-told-us-so/

By: He told us so! « niq’s soapbox

He told us so! « niq’s soapbox — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:24:34 +0000

[...] being orphaned and its users left in limbo despite MySQL being open source (GPL)! His thesis (here) is that if Oracle wants to stifle MySQL, they can make it very unrewarding for anyone else to pick [...]

By: Joseph A. di Paolantonio

Joseph A. di Paolantonio — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:42:15 +0000

I agree with all that you’re saying about licensing and open core strategies. But it seems that Oracle has been a good open source player with InnoDB and BerkeleyDB/Sleepycat and might be so with MySQL, Glassfish, Mural MDM projects and the other F/LOSS projects being acquired with the Sun deal.