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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. who leads who? by Virtex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Larry Ellison, has maintained that open source projects are only successful when major technology corporations get involved

    That's funny. It seems to me that major technology corporations usually get involved in open source projects only after they become successful.

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