James is on another rant. He has asked me to reply to a couple of other posts on LDAP topics, but I wanted to get clarity on one of his points.
9. I would use the same law and force Larry Ellison to make Oracle contribute more to open source.
First - why single out Ellison and Oracle? Does he feel others like Microsoft or IBM or CA have done enough? And if so - what have they done for comparison.
Second - I would like to point our Oracle's contributions to Open Source. Most people are probably not familiar to the work we have done.
Start with our Open Source Site.
But just to give a summary:
1 - Oracle contributes heavily to Linux to help the database in particular work better. This is why we were able to offer Oracle Enterprise Linux.
2 - We have put significant effort - in terms of drivers and related work to various projects including PHP, Ruby, Spring and of course EclipseLink (aka open-source of Toplink)
3 - We effectively donated our entire next-generation UI library (ADF) to Apache to help provider a richer platform for Web applications.
4 - We doing all of the reference work for IGF in the open at openLiberty.
5 - It's now possible to run Oracle software on Amazon EC2. This is particular useful when it comes to the database - you can now have a full EE database instance running in 5 minutes without having to fiddle with any kernel or related parameters.
So James -what specifically do you want Oracle to do more of? And what would be the value for you to do so? If you have specific items I'm happy to hear them & communicate them to the appropriate people.
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Maybe you could share on your next posting exactly how allowing closed source Oracle databases on the Amazon grid is open source?
Likewise, there is a difference between open source and open specifications. Are you willing to say that all reference code will be of production quality?
Sun has open sourced LDAP. Would you as a product manager advocate the same for virtual directories?
OK, Kim Cameron of MS paid for implementations of Cardspace on other platforms in which MS is simply attempting to improve the ecosystem and won't make a cent off it. In many ways it actually competes with its own offerings. What is the Oracle equivalent?
Posted by James | October 5, 2008 9:26 AM
Posted on October 5, 2008 09:26