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Oracle Continues Warming Up to Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the the-more-the-merrier dept.

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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  1. Finallly!!!!! by njcoder · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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.

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    1. Re:Finallly!!!!! by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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...

  2. nothing to do with open source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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 ?!?!

  3. Let's see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  4. Oracle is about profit by CaptainZapp · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

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  5. Re:Has nothing to do with Open Source... by daigu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.