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A question on what Oracle Corp will do with acquired Sun's open source offerings. Those companies that wrote off Oracle in the past have suddenly woken up to find themselves in bed with Oracle with their MySQL, Java, Open Office, Solaris and Sun installations. For some, it's a dream come t...

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Published in:The open source business resource 2009-09, p.37-37
Main Author: Selim, Sam P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business
Combustion
Communities
Computer programs
Freeware
Source code
Sun
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Summary:A question on what Oracle Corp will do with acquired Sun's open source offerings. Those companies that wrote off Oracle in the past have suddenly woken up to find themselves in bed with Oracle with their MySQL, Java, Open Office, Solaris and Sun installations. For some, it's a dream come true: they finally get a large successful conglomerate to back their favourite open source software and to support their open standards. For others, who have been burned in the past by Oracle's somewhat greedy and forever changing pricing policies, it's quite the nightmare. But perhaps Oracle has learned from their past mistakes and will approach the Sun product line with a slightly less capitalistic view, in the hopes of restoring their reputation and to win over the loyal Sun customer-base and the open source community.
ISSN:1913-6102