[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

[Anil]

For us the biggest issue is the price of the OS. We don't mind paying
something like $99/year/system or some thing of that sorts to run Solaris
(with patches). Sorry, support not required. Why can't Oracle do something
like that? What's it got to loose? The pricing they gave us was ridiculous,
so we stopped using it.

I always wondered why Sun couldn't do that... so it can pay it's bills.


On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Pablo Oddera <pablo.oddera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Good links, but if you were going to emphasize that Oracle gave some code
> to
> the community, Microsoft gave the double. Even worst Oracle has
> "Unbreakable
> Linux (sic)", which is no more than a glorified clon of Red Hat (love Red
> Hat by the way). So in short, they gave up a little, steal a lot and close
> the source of everything that they can. That's really how Oracle "loves"
> the
> opensource!
>
> Being the kind of company Oracle is, the size of the Linux related
> projects,
> you would expect a little more from them. Red Hat gave an 11% of the code.
> Microsoft 4% and Oracle 2%
>
> This is not against you, but Oracle as a company is not committed to help
> the open source. I saw the link with your contribution and that's great,
> but
> that doesn't solve the bottom line for Oracle.
>
> Best regards
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith <
> alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > On 08/02/11 11:49, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> > >> Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a
> > charity,
> > >> and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft,
> > >
> > > You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support
> > for
> > > an OpenSource OS while Oracle and Microsoft have donated to the Open
> > Source
> > > community almost nothing. RH had produced and donated pieces of
> software,
> > > but Oracle and Microsoft have done quite the opposite.
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ - top employers of contributors to the
> > Linux 3.0
> > release cycle, by changeset includes both Microsoft (support for running
> > Linux
> > as a guest in Microsoft HyperV) and Oracle (btrfs & general kernel
> tuning).
> >
> > http://oss.oracle.com/ - Oracle's contributions to Linux & other open
> > source
> > products.
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTE1MQ
> >
> > --
> >        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
> >         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
> >
> >
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