[conspire] (forw) Re: [ILUG] Good open source ammunition document.

Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
Mon Oct 4 12:36:05 PDT 2004


begin  Rick Moen quotation of Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:57:14AM -0700:

> Hilarious and wise.  Also, the linked ZDnet UK is, for once, well worth
> reading to understand why Sun incessantly wastes time dissing Red Hat,
> Inc.

The interesting thing about Sun is that after Oracle
"commoditized the complement" by supporting Linux,
Sun now has nothing to lose by flying the MySQL flag.

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-09/sunflash.20040923.1.html

Sun is like almost every other computer company --
they support Free stuff in markets where they don't
have a profitable product.

"commoditizing the complement" is from here:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

-- 
Don Marti
http://zgp.org/~dmarti
dmarti at zgp.org




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