Comments on: UPDATED: Sun CEO Issues Memo in Wake of Oracle Acquisition Greenlight

By: Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:22:04 +0000

So what are the First Letters?

On the OSS business model discussion. There is still ambiguity as to why people do open source. On one hand people would like to treat OSS as public property and on the other it is just-another-commercial play with a different redemption approach.

Refer thoughts here

http://www.thedelphicfuture.org/2010/01/save-mysql.html?showComment=1263755406163#c8141557860906663466

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:57:10 +0000

[...] UPDATED: Sun CEO Issues Memo in Wake of Oracle Acquisition Greenlight During his tenure as CEO of Sun, Schwartz was best known as the pony-tailed lover of all things open source, quixotically dressed on stage in pinstripe suits. I’m betting he has serious doubts about Oracle’s intent to advance Sun’s open source efforts. [...]

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:12:04 +0000

@Bart, Excellent thinking, about the first letter of the first seven paragraphs...

By: Bart Simpson

Bart Simpson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:44:30 +0000

I think he proved the open source software business model. What he couldn't prove was that SPARC wasn't dead. SPARC evaporating (along with the banks that ran it) was what sunk them, not their software business (which was worth more than Sun itself).

btw, anyone else read his internal memo? Look at the first letter of each of the first seven paragraphs...

By: GoSun

GoSun — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:30:46 +0000

Hopefully at the "Oracle + Sun Strategy Update" (Jan 27th) we will know a bit more on what Oracle will keep or throw away.

I am a bit concerned for products like OpenOffice and netbeans... will see.

By: Sebastian Rupley

Sebastian Rupley — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:28:13 +0000

@Niraj, I think we're right on the cusp of seeing many companies come up with sustainable business models surrounding open source. Red Hat, for example, has flourished during the recession. But Sun experimented and stumbled, and ultimately had to offer shareholders a buyout opportunity when one was offered.

Sebastian

By: Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:21:38 +0000

Jonathan was the guy, I had hoped, who would prove the open source business model.

Guess what! he failed and also my views on open source changed. There is not such thing as free lunch. someone had to pay- in this case shareholders like me paid the price.