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Oracle Boss Says OSS Needs Big Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unhealthy-releationship dept.

Rob writes "Oracle Corp's CEO, Larry Ellison, has maintained that open source projects are only successful when major technology corporations get involved and doubted that open source will have a major impact on the software areas in which the company operates. Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo Ellison also confirmed that the company had inquired about acquiring open source database vendor MySQL AB and denied that Oracle's recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival."

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  1. In other news, by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    the CEO of General Mills has declared that breakfast is only successful when big business gets involved, the Maverick playing cards company has concluded that games of chance are only successful when big business gets involved, and the Louisville Slugger company have announced that bludgeoning people with baseball bats is only a success when big business gets involved.

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  2. Re:Gaim? by dylan_- · · Score: 4, Funny
    Where would Debian be without IBM (and other companies) supporting Linux kernel development?
    Exactly the same place. IBM's contributions haven't made it into Debian yet...

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