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RE: Oracle encouraging Linux software developers

From: Stephane Paquette <stephane.paquette_at_standardlife.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:38:49 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00574481.20030327073849@fatcity.com>


It reminds me a report (Gartner, Meta, ?) I've read in 1997 saying that after year 2000 there should be only 3 players in the rdbms market : Oracle because it has the biggest market share, IBM because it's IBM and Microsoft because Bill was throwing a lot of $$$ to develop Sql Server.

In 2003, Ingres, Sybase and Informix have about a 5% marketshare all together.

What's for the future ?

Stephane

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WILLIAMS
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:14 AM
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Jacques - We often don't realize that at end-user sites we look at the immediate computer marketplace. Any vendor that did that would be out of business in a couple of years. A vendor, like Oracle, must predict where the the market will be in a couple of years. About two years ago the META Group predicted that in about 5 years most servers sold would be running one of three operating systems:

  1. Windows
  2. Linux
  3. Solaris

As near as I can tell, they are on the mark. The other Unix vendors are showing signs of shifting to Linux. Obviously they won't announce that directly since they need to keep selling computers today.

     From Oracle's point of view, they don't care who is the winner, just that Oracle is the leading database, and not something like MySQL.

     Remember how Unix emerged as the leading O.S. Since AT&T couldn't sell computers (for awhile due to antitrust restrictions), they gave source code copies to colleges. New C.S. majors learned Unix inside out while in college. I understand today that those people are learning Linux internals in college. Obviously Microsoft is at a disadvantage since they don't want to provide source code, although I heard Microsoft has an initiative to provide "limited" source code to a college.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:44 PM
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For those not interested in marketing news, I would suggest skipping this message.

>From a Computerworld article

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79730,00. html
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79730,00 .html>
Oracle ups Linux efforts with ISV program By James Niccolai, IDG News Service
MARCH 26, 2003 Oracle Corp. is shelling out US$150 million to encourage its software partners to develop for Linux (two US$ for every US$ spent be the vendor.)

Some other interesting tidbits from the article: "Separately, engineers at Oracle are working on the Linux kernel, the code at the heart of all Linux distributions, to make it more suitable for Oracle's software. The company plans to submit its work to Linus Torvalds, who oversees changes made to the Linux kernel, with the hope its work will be incorporated ... Among those efforts ... increase the amount of physical memory that can be addressed by 32-bit Intel servers running Linux. Oracle also hopes that a version of the clustered file system that it released for Linux customers last year will become part of the kernel."

Why would Oracle give money to people to develop on Linux? Is it only to help bring down Microsoft?

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