Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Oct 19 04:28:09 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur: Oracle's market position has been slowly eroding. Oracle has always been looked upon as the product for big-data but the NoSQL databases have been eating away at sales. The TOC of Oracle is also in the hardware it needs. Big sites in the government have some substantial farms of Oracle with top of the line servers...Oracle is not truly distributive not like the host of new systems out there...which can scale with ease to any size and are not equipment dependant. As for security, Oracle would have a very hard case to make, to prove its OSS challengers are less secure...in fact the reverse is probably true. OTOH Oracle is probably correct when it says there is a lack of qualified new age support techs out there but that is changing quickly. Aside: For the record MySQL growth has flat-lined. Maybe Larry is worried that he is losing his business? Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion concerning MS SQL Server" <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 6:27:04 AM Subject: [dba-SQLServer] Oracle blasts OSS >From slashdot... *"Oracle has a love-hate relationship with open source technologies. In a whitepaper<http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/cloud-app-foundation/weblogic/dod-and-open-source-software-2012277.pdf>(PDF) for the Deparment of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source. They're essentially trying to build a case for the use of their own products within the government. 'The skill required to successfully and economically blend source code into a commercially viable product is relatively scarce. It should not be done directly at government expense.' Oracle also attacks the community-based development model<http://www.muktware.com/2013/10/oracle-attacks-open-source-says-community-developed-code-inferior/15045>, calling it more insecure than company developed products. 'Government-sponsored community development approaches to software creation lack the financial incentives of commercial companies to produce low-defect, well-documented code.'" * How exactly this fits in with the (indirect) acquisition of MySQL remains to be seen. Maybe Larry just has too much money. -- Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com