Comments on: Ingres CEO Analyzes Oracle-MySQL Combo http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/21/ingres-ceo-analyzes-oracle-mysql-combo/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/21/ingres-ceo-analyzes-oracle-mysql-combo/comment-page-1/#comment-106971 The VAR Guy Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:19:37 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=7603#comment-106971 Lawrence: Your thoughts caught The VAR Guy's ear. A lot of folks are calling on Oracle to keep the Java playing field level. Our resident blogger will offer more thoughts later today. -TVG Lawrence: Your thoughts caught The VAR Guy’s ear. A lot of folks are calling on Oracle to keep the Java playing field level. Our resident blogger will offer more thoughts later today.
-TVG

]]> By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/21/ingres-ceo-analyzes-oracle-mysql-combo/comment-page-1/#comment-106950 Lawrence D'Oliveiro Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:14:33 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=7603#comment-106950 Unlike MySQL and OpenOffice.org, Java is not quite fully open source. Sun retained veto power over the operations of the Java Community Process, and the validation suite that an implementation needs to pass to use the “Java” name is NOT open-source. The harm that Oracle could do to MySQL and OOo is limited. But the damage it can do to Java if it wants, is huge. As with most proprietary companies, this can arise not out of deliberate malevolence, but out of simple neglect. It gets  too expensive to continue pouring resources into a roprietary product, so the company loses interest, and the users get left in the lurch. Unlike MySQL and OpenOffice.org, Java is not quite fully open source. Sun retained veto power over the operations of the Java Community Process, and the validation suite that an implementation needs to pass to use the “Java” name is NOT open-source.

The harm that Oracle could do to MySQL and OOo is limited. But the damage it can do to Java if it wants, is huge. As with most proprietary companies, this can arise not out of deliberate malevolence, but out of simple neglect. It gets 
too expensive to continue pouring resources into a roprietary product, so the company loses interest, and the users get left in the lurch.

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