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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."

2 of 157 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No clue on relevance of revenues or who made Li by GoCanes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Free hardware? I'll take a Porsche!

  2. Re:Larry "Loser" Ellison? by andrewzx1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better check the spelling on "loser", bucko!