[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

[Linda Kateley]

So sun tried that, it wasn't $99 but it was 349 for a year, for 
basically self support.. and sun ended up on the side of the street with 
a sign "will build os for food"

Oracle will make you pay enterprise pricing for enterprise products, the 
idea of concept of enterprise is diminished by not charging appropriately.

On 8/2/11 5:46 PM, Anil wrote:
> 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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