Oracle Embraces Mozilla

kiggs writes "According to this article from eWeek, Oracle Corp. is ready to extend its 'Linux Everywhere' campaign to client systems. At next week's LinuxWorld in New York, Oracle will announce that it will enable the Mozilla open-source Web browser to run Oracle applications in the coming year. Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracle's Linux Program Office and the Performance Engineering team within its Platform Technologies Division, says that Oracle will look to expand its 1.5-year-old Linux support program by supporting Linux not just as a server but as a client."

Comments

Whats wrong with IE?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is wrong with IE? Most used, most reliable, fastest, and most innovotive browser around.

Don't bother with these other strange browsers, we don't need them, and don't waste YOUR time.

IF it wasnt for MS, we wouldn't be using the web today, because PCs would still be very difficult to use and there would be no software.

Thank you bill Gates, we ALL owe you a beer.

Re:Whats wrong with IE?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you bill Gates, we ALL owe you a beer.

MORE small print in the EULA?

Re:Whats wrong with IE?

[SmilingBoy]

When I go to windowsupdate.com it tells me:

Thank you for your interest in Windows Update

Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the most out of your computer.

You must be running a Microsoft Windows operating system in order to use Windows Update.

Don't know what would happen if I would apply a Windows "update" on my Linux box...

Re:databases-and-web-browsers-living-in-my-anus de

[Anonymous Coward]

(goatse ascii with oracle in the anus)

Having tried to use iAS Enterprise Manager I'd mod this insightful. It has to be the most bloated and crappiest web interface ever. If you know a worse example, please don't tell about it, just let us quietly pretend as if it didn't exist.

Re:The enemy of my enemy...

[Colonel Cholling]

So they're backing free software, something laughed at by most corporate bodies up until this time, to beat Bill. Capitalists using communists to fight fascists. Neat!

Free software is communist? Who do you think you are, Laura DiDio?

I knew that Mozilla overbloated, but...

[tereshchenko]

I knew that Mozilla overbloated (kitchen sink anyone?), but including Oracle DB is a bit overkill I think...

I can't remember: is Oracle on the evil list?

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, yeah...
SCO? Evil
Microsoft? Evil
Linux? Not Evil
BSD? Not Evil, but reported dead.
Diebold? Evil
Natalie Portman? Not Evil
RMS? Evil and Not Evil at the same time!

Where does Oracle fit into the Evil vs. Not Evil scale?

TDz.

Re:I can't remember: is Oracle on the evil list?

[the eric conspiracy]

Where does Oracle fit into the Evil vs. Not Evil scale?

It's White Evil as opposed to the Black Evil of SCO and Microsoft.

Re:Whats wrong with Proprietary Everything

[Colonel Cholling]

And maybe Bill will drown in all that free beer!

<rms>No, no, you're missing the point. It's about free speech, not free beer. Why can't you stupid GNU/Linux people ever understand that? Half the time you don't even put the GNU before Linux. Just you wait, in only ten years HURD will be an almost-usable kernel and you'll see. YOU'LL SEE!!</rms>

Separated at birth

[S.I.O.]

> Oracle embraces Mozilla
Mozilla was a natural choice for Oracle, as both of them are ruthless, flesh-eating predators, who just trample over the weak and possess a tiny brain.