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Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior

Posted by Soulskill on from the completely-unbiased-and-without-any-sort-of-agenda dept.

sfcrazy writes "Oracle has a love-hate relationship with open source technologies. In a whitepaper (PDF) for the Deparment of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source. They're essentially trying to build a case for the use of their own products within the government. 'The skill required to successfully and economically blend source code into a commercially viable product is relatively scarce. It should not be done directly at government expense.' Oracle also attacks the community-based development model, calling it more insecure than company developed products. 'Government-sponsored community development approaches to software creation lack the financial incentives of commercial companies to produce low-defect, well-documented code.'"

2 of 394 comments (clear)

  1. Whitepaper? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can't we just call them advertisements like the waste of time they truly are?

  2. Re:Like your own product by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Informative

    Blatantly, even.

    [brad@icarus Desktop]$ cat /etc/oracle-release
    Oracle Linux Server release 6.4
    [brad@icarus Desktop]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
    [brad@icarus Desktop]$ uname -a
    Linux icarus 2.6.39-400.209.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 10 20:39:39 PDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    [brad@icarus Desktop]$

    At least CentOS bothered to change the redhat-release file.

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