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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. 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 ?!?!

  2. Re:Finallly!!!!! by njcoder · · Score: 5, Informative
    If anyone missed the sarcastic tone, the point is the summary doesn't reflect the headline. Hell the article headline doesn't reflect the article. There's one small line how Oracle is going to make it easier to integrate Sprinng and Hybernate into their app server. That's the only Open Source bit.

    It shouldn't be a big deal to use Oracle's J2EE applications on WebSphere. Had they written their applications to use only J2EE specified classes/methods/packages there shouldn't be a major problem porting one application to another app server. Unfortunately a lot of App Server vendors write their own extensions to the specification that if used causes this problem. It's good that the vendors are inovating before something even becomes a JSR but it can cause portability problems.

    Oracle's app server hasn't gotten much momentum behind it. Some people may use it if they already are using Oracle and don't care too much about their app server but the App server market leaders are BEA and IBM. Some of the cool features in Oracle RAC depend on an Oracle App server. So if you're commited to a different app server then you're going to have some issues to work with. I think some of their transaction failover stuff depends on OAS.

    What Oracle should do is make modifications to their application so that it's a pure J2EE application that can run on any certified app server. That seems like the better thing to do. Hopefully that's what they do and this is just some PR bullshit with IBM.

    When Oracle announcces they're apps will run on JBoss and any other open source appservers that have been certified then you can say Oracle is warming up to open source.

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  3. Marketing speak - and 5 years old by gtoomey · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Wrong summary by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is Slashdot. Here, if all As are Bs and all Bs are Cs, then logically, all As are purple monkey dishwashers.

  5. Re:Has nothing to do with Open Source... by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IBM has Open Source - just a business decision based on popularity.

    IBM is heavily investing in life science. A lot of life science, especially at the university level, is using linux. I have been to a number of life science meetings/user groups/etc hosted all or in part by IBM. The minute a rep gets whiff that you are not a decision maker - a buyer, they turn tail on you, immediately. I have seen it happen a number of times (not to me, but I have seen a number of people outright snubbed right in the middle of conversations when they reveal something so horrid as they are a graduate student or post doc.) They don't give two shits about science and they make no bones about showing it. They just want to sell servers.