I get that Oracle runs on open-source software. I know that Oracle is a major Linux supporter. But, please, please don’t mistake Oracle as an open-source, open-core, or any other kind of “open” business at heart. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, is all about making billions of dollars. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s what all businesses are about. But, to Ellison open source is just the means to that end and nothing else. If a program doesn’t fit into his plan, it’s not going to get supported.
So, while Oracle recently put up a page listing its native open-source projects and the ones that it’s inherited from Sun, don’t think for a minute that all those programs are actually going to be supported. They’re not.
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