Oracle is the Borg: Enterprise Software Development Will Be Assimilated

<i>So it’s pretty clear to me that Oracle is playing for keeps, and playing to own the Enterprise space.</i><p>It's not like Oracle's behavior with MySQL and Java is something new for them. Larry Ellison has always been a guy who buys a company, streamlines their processes, figures out a way to squeeze every last cent out of their products and then hires 1,000 new sales reps to sell it to enterprise customers. More than anything, I'm puzzled that it took this long and I'm puzzled that this hits anyone as something unexpected.

I'm actually flirting to move to everything Oracle for my career (seriously). There's a big money and (hopefully) less work for those who know how to use 10% of Oracle's other software aside from their database.<p>Now I can go home by 5 and have a side project/job on the evening and weekend using Emacs, Ruby, Rails, and jQuery.<p>I'll be set for the next 10 years!

YAY! Oracle is going to drive MySQL into the ground! Thank god.<p>I'm getting really tired of cleaning up relational disasters.

I think people often forget that Oracle also owns Peoplsoft, another big enterprise play.

This is a recurring pattern in history of "enterprise software" (for whatever it means) the fade of technologies and the high-cost of maintainability for those legacy systems. This is a common business model in the software (or hardware) sold to large corporation. Usually the customer wants just something that works for their business and don't always understand the implication on relying on their ancient systems. And by extension, those large corporation just paid (a lot) for maintaining the legacy system up and (somehow) running...<p>As mentioned in another comment, this is allowing some space for better designed software where the large corporation can't find something versatile enough. The history in software is just a circular loop with a feedback input (where the innovation is coming from other companies or individuals).<p>Oracle is only playing on the field of legacy systems to maintain. At the end, this is great for start-ups, free software developers or individuals who are innovating. For us, this is a brand new world opens with plenty of opportunities...

...so how long now before Oracle makes a bid for Red Hat?

Ðe irony… : Error establishing a database connection

...because there are <i>no</i> other database vendors out there. There's definitely no such thing as Postgres, SQL Server, or DB2.

Any chance of getting a copy of the text? Site is down and neither Google nor Coral have it.

Ah yes, capitalism at its best.