[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/9/2021 4:34 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <serrmi$1akh$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris-nospam at tridac.net (chris)
> wrote:
>> On 08/09/21 19:04, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 8/9/2021 1:37 PM, chris wrote:
>>>> Perhaps so, but desn't change the fact that Oracle have made a
>>>> support only business model a success, Linux or Solaris. A vast
>>>> range of s/w from that site, same business.
> 
> Oracle are not primarily in the OS business. Nor were Sun.
> 
> Sun were in the hardware business, and became non-viable when commodity
> hardware with Linux became far more cost-effective than their own
> hardware with Solaris.
> 
> Oracle are in the database software business. The database is free to
> evaluate, but /not/ to use for commercial production work.

Oracle is in a lot of businesses today.

Database business.

ERP/CRM business.

Middleware business (WebLogic etc.).

I believe they are trying to get out of the HW & OS business (SPARC 
servers and Solaris).

They are trying to get into the cloud business.

Arne