Re: Oracle and OpenSource
Date: 23 Jan 2004 00:34:01 -0800
Message-ID: <63b202d.0401230034.47ea3772_at_posting.google.com>
the overriding issue is to save money in IT depts.
- by using OpenSource and/or
- shipping jobs to India etc..
both points contested by Sybrand and Jim.
But as users of Oracle they (and other people) should be aware of
Oracle's position on OpenSource. Which is why I quoted directly from
Oracle itself,
and gave the slashdot to Oracle India in the other thread.
Oracle do not need to make their product OpenSource (yet) as they have the largest chunk of the DB market.
My contention is that at some point in the near future companies like MySql will take significant market share from other DB's. Especially companies who do not need large complex (expensive) DB's to get the job done.
Likewise Linux is taking market share from other OS manufacturers.
Regards
Michael Newport
PS I started a similar thread on comp.databases.ingres and proposed that CA-Ingres should go OpenSource because it has a tiny fraction of the DB market and needed to do something radical to survive, although CA themselves did not like the idea. Received on Fri Jan 23 2004 - 09:34:01 CET