So sun tried that, it wasn't $99 but it was 349 for a year, for
basically self support.. and sun ended up on the side of the street with
a sign "will build os for food"
Oracle will make you pay enterprise pricing for enterprise products, the
idea of concept of enterprise is diminished by not charging appropriately.
On 8/2/11 5:46 PM, Anil wrote:
For us the biggest issue is the price of the OS. We don't mind paying
something like $99/year/system or some thing of that sorts to run Solaris
(with patches). Sorry, support not required. Why can't Oracle do something
like that? What's it got to loose? The pricing they gave us was ridiculous,
so we stopped using it.
I always wondered why Sun couldn't do that... so it can pay it's bills.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Pablo Oddera<[email protected]> wrote:
Alan,
Good links, but if you were going to emphasize that Oracle gave some code
to
the community, Microsoft gave the double. Even worst Oracle has
"Unbreakable
Linux (sic)", which is no more than a glorified clon of Red Hat (love Red
Hat by the way). So in short, they gave up a little, steal a lot and close
the source of everything that they can. That's really how Oracle "loves"
the
opensource!
Being the kind of company Oracle is, the size of the Linux related
projects,
you would expect a little more from them. Red Hat gave an 11% of the code.
Microsoft 4% and Oracle 2%
This is not against you, but Oracle as a company is not committed to help
the open source. I saw the link with your contribution and that's great,
but
that doesn't solve the bottom line for Oracle.
Best regards
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith<
[email protected]> wrote:
On 08/02/11 11:49, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a
charity,
and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft,
You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support
for
an OpenSource OS while Oracle and Microsoft have donated to the Open
Source
community almost nothing. RH had produced and donated pieces of
software,
but Oracle and Microsoft have done quite the opposite.
http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ - top employers of contributors to the
Linux 3.0
release cycle, by changeset includes both Microsoft (support for running
Linux
as a guest in Microsoft HyperV) and Oracle (btrfs& general kernel
tuning).
http://oss.oracle.com/ - Oracle's contributions to Linux& other open
source
products.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTE1MQ
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