"Sun's failure is not the failure of Open Source"
Michel Tiemann (pic), The president of Open source affairs ar REDHAT Inc. addressed a press conference: A Summary -->
It will be totally a Culture Shock for Sun Developrs at Oracle, Sun was known as the open source company but Oracle doesn't have that reputation. He told that Oracle has been contributing to the Linux kernel for quite some time.
Open source is a great way to grow a value of technology asset, so perhaps Oracle will directly attack to Java.Customers are looking for heterogeneous environments and they find Redhat and Oracle better than Microsoft, while Redhat is leading open source company, Oracle offers a mix.
--> David Axmark, co-founder, MySQL Database:
The whole idea with FLOSS software is that it doesn't matterwho owns it even remotely as much as it does for closed source software. So they (customers-users) can continue to use MySQL whatever happens. And there are still tons of good MySQL support people at Sun, so there is no problem buying support from Sun.
(I think Axmark has a strong point in this)
--> Monty Widenius, co-founder, MySQL Database:
"We would be happy to cooperate very closely with Oracle but we are not likely to join. After working for a big company like Sun, we enjoy the extra freedom and benefits we get in a smaller company. Another thing is that I don't think Oracle can match the benefits of the hacking business model we have been using."
(Hmmmm...Kool down Mr. Widenius)
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