On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:54:24 +0530 Nalin Savara <nsn...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > (1) How are people "locked into Lamp" ? > --> because many people/sites use Drupal, Joomla, PHP etc-- and incase a > particular platform vendor decides to fork the offering into a premium and > non-premium offering; then it is easier for them to pay for premium service > than to take the risk of re-engineering tens of thousands of code to use a > different underlying platform component eg: database.
Um, that is a strange definition of lock-in. I am not quite sure what you mean by a "platform vendor", but I am guessing that it is somene who hosts the entire LAMP (though I am not sure where Drupal, and Joomla fit in) stack for a company. If the company deems the extra payment for your hypothetical forking into a premium version worth it, surely that is *their* business decision. They could: (a) Hire someone else to host their stack, or (b) Develop in-house expertise, and to hell with the rest of the world. A LAMP company whose business model depended on such forking would soon find itself in the poorhouse. True lock-in is when you do not have these options, because your application has come to rely on proprietary *extensions*. I find it incredible that you are accusing LAMP folk of fostering lock-in, when Oracle is one of the poster boys for such. > (2) Why good for people at large-- > well; I nevva said good for ppl at large-- it's just that it's a amazing and > exciting opportunity for the people at oracle to experiment and be totally > experimental and out of the box about their strategy and approach-- because > it's not as if there's a salesforce chasing the existing customers that will > rebel. True, that you never said that it was good for people at large, but again why should an open-souce mailing list care about the fortunes of a company that is among the most opposed to open source. > Customer discontent not having as loud a political voice--- can simmer for > longer-- and can be handled more cheaply. Customer discontent? Bah to you, and your ilk. You should meet some of the local companies that have been forced to hire so-called Oracle database experts. > This is almost as exciting a strategy experiment opportunity that the people > at microsoft had. Please go and shill for proprietary companies elsewhere. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
