Oracle dooms its prospects in open source business
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Hey Larry, can you sue Google for me? -Steve Jobs
junauza.com: We've been hearing about this messy legal battle between tech giants Oracle and Google all week long. I've read several comments as to the main reason behind the lawsuit and most of them point to Oracle being greedy and wanted Google and others who have benefited from using Android to pay a huge some of money or royalty.
The mastermind here could be the greedy Steve Jobs. He may have convinced his BFF (best friend forever) Oracle CEO and founder Larry Ellison to sue Google after knowing Android is now eclipsing the iPhone in smartphone sales. Never underestimate the convincing power of Jobs.
Imagine how much Jobs hates Android at the moment.
Is Oracle going after Google because Ellison is buddies w/ Jobs?
itworld.com: I can think of all kinds of reasons why Oracle is suing Google over its use of its Java IP (intellectual property) in Android. Making money from its Java patents strikes me and most experts as the most likely reason. But, I've also heard suggested, time after time, that the real reason is that Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO is buddies with Steve Jobs, aka Mr. Apple and he wanted to help Apple fight Android.
Could that be the case?
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"Oracle dooms its prospects in open source business"
Yeah, I'm sure with it's billions of dollars worth of sales with it's propriatary software, that Larry is losing sleep at night over it.
When...
...open software, equivalent in capability to Oracle's, is available for free, then Larry has, is, losing sleep. http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010081701435OSDTSW
Larry might be in a better position to control/kill this competition by this purchase of Sun and its open source properties...
re: when
With that lame logic, a moped is the equivalent to a Harley.
That list is chock full of unpolished crapware full of wishful thinking that they're even in the same ballpark as the professional software they state they are "equivalent" to.
Fine for home users and hobbyists - never EVER will make even a rounding error dent in market share at the enterprise level. The only reason Larry might be losing sleep over these is he can't stop laughing so he can get some Zzzzzzz's.
I'll be more impressed when Linuxtoday finally figures out what a "print article" button is supposed to do (currently it strips the formatting but leaves the 5 page "next" navigation in place)
Well...
I do admit, I've never used any of the software in that list...
However, the "unpolished crapware" with which I do have experience; OpenOffice, GIMP, FireFox, Chromium; etc. meet or beat any of the commercial packages they replaced, along with the operating system which I used from 1.03 to XP.
So, I am giving that author the benefit of a doubt, that he has used or reviewed the packages which he is comparing.