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

[Oswald Knoppers]

Op dinsdag 10 augustus 2021 om 01:20:04 UTC+2 schreef Arne Vajhøj:
> On 8/9/2021 4:34 PM, John Dallman wrote: 
> > In article <serrmi$1akh$1... at gioia.aioe.org>, chris-... 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
I thought Oracle was a law firm.

Oswald