Obviously this is totally dependant on how everything turns out, and what Oracle really wants here, but I think that Martin has historical precedent behind his arguments.
The highly litigious developer-bashing attitude of Oracle is reminiscent of Microsoft's past. They did realise their mistake eventually, when Steve Balmer came out with his now-infamous "developers, developers, developers" speech, and nobody trusted him Apple, at the same time, promised to make their machines "The best platform for Java developers" The shift in mindshare from MS to Apple since then is obvious (just count macbooks at any Java conference), and now that Apple has an Objective-C tarpit whilst MS has channel9, the pendulum is swinging back. In taking ownership of Java, Oracle has now put themselves in a position of being vulnerable to the same forces. This will hit them in their bottom line, their cash cow database, with technical decision makers no longer trusting them and instead migrating to alternate vendors or NoSQL solutions by way of protest. Just consider Terracotta, who has a main selling point of reducing in Oracle DB usage, and therefore license fees. They won't be the first... On 17 August 2010 09:33, Wildam Martin <mwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:48, Miroslav Pokorny > <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes they dont exist in isolation, > > but its not like current customers have an option, they cant just leave > > Oracle products, its not like there are drop in replacements. Its just > > cheaper and easier to continue as is, rather than drastically changing > > things. > > Of course not in the short-term. But in the long term things are > different. You can just choose to create the next new database not on > Oracle and five years later world may look different. > > -- > Martin Wildam > > http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wave: kev.lee.wri...@googlewave.com skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
