Oracle Continues Warming Up to Open Source

ErikPeterson writes to tell us that News.com is running a story about a partnership between IBM and Oracle. This partnership is to help "ensure that Oracle's packaged applications run natively--that is, without modification or special translators--on the majority of IBM's WebSphere-branded middleware, including its application server and portal, plus Big Blue's recently announced Process Server."

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Finallly!!!!!

[njcoder]

Finally, IBM is putting it's money where it's mouth is. "Oracle warming up to open source..." "oracle applications to run on WebSphere" Guess that means IBM is open sourcing WebSphere?? I must have missed that bit of news.

Yeah I only read the summary.

Re:Finallly!!!!!

[Adult film producer]

As well, you might say that Microsoft is warming up to Open Source because they included some OSS utilities with VISTA or whatever their latest operating system incarnation is...

nothing to do with open source

[Anonymous Coward]

This has nothing to do with open source, does it ??
It's just a partnership to assure that oracle will stick to a defined standard ?!?!

Let's see

[Anonymous Coward]

In the last year, Oracle has swallowed up two major corporations in hostile takeovers to sell proprietary enterprise management (CRM, ERP, etc).

Larry has a serious ego issue, and cannot accept anybody being better than him (even though in a moral sense 99% of us are, but we're talking monetary here).

Is Oracle absolved from this immature behavior just because they claim to like Linux?

The answer is no.

Hmm

[ShaolinTiger]

So now IBM Websphere = Open Source? Haven't heard about that one..

Oracle is about profit

[CaptainZapp]

And if there's profit to be made then open source is Oracles best friend.

Oracle is about the last software company having anything to do with altruism; period.

Re:Oracle is about profit

[Anonymous Coward]

omg and IBM is all about altruism? how funny. Maybe you should tell IBM's stock holders.

Re:Marketing speak - and 5 years old

[njcoder]

"What on earth has this go to do with open source? If they mean Linux, all this is saying is that Oracle gurantees it runs on Linux but that has been the case for 5 years. I think the editors should read and understand stories before posting."

Hello pot, meet kettle.

I guess I can see how you got confused that this was about Linux. I mean just because the story didn't even mention an operating systems, let alone Linux, you were keen to read between the lines and figure out since they mentioned Open Source and IBM that this was about linux and not the two open source projects that were actually mentioned in the article. :)

Re:Too little too late

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, jolly good if you're going to write a new application from scratch. In the meantime, the rest of us maintaining software based round proprietary Oracle code, aren't going to get business backing to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds migrating onto a free piece of software - at least not unless the benefit exceeds the cost.
Of course, this means we are all doomed.

Just why is buying corporations "immoral"?

[Anonymous Coward]

To take over a company like Oracle did you'd have to convince the current owners to sell it to you. It's only "hostile" as far as the management of the company being taken over is concerned. But since they report to the owners and it's the owners who decided to sell, the management is SOL. Which is probably why they're hostile to the idea.

Why do you paint owner's selling their company for what they consider a fair price in such negative terms? It sounds like nothing more than knee-jerk anti-big-business attitudes with no basis in reality.

Re:Has nothing to do with Open Source...

[daigu]

Personally, I find I'm not a decision maker is a great way to start (and potentially end) a conversation - especially with vendors. It cuts through the BS beautifully.