Re: Another License Review
- From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Dave Herring <gdherri@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:01:37 -0400
On 11/01/2017 04:15 PM, Dave Herring wrote:
I'm now finally involved with a client who has gone down this road and
Oracle lost the discussion. Of course legally I can neither confirm
nor deny how many millions were involved in the ULA that was cancelled
along with neither confirming nor denying any outright effort to move
to a different vendor. :-)
Hi Dave,
I have seen this before. Once upon a time, in a state far, far away,
called Massachusetts, there used to be a great company with excellent
mid-range systems, running an excellent OS called VMS. VMS 4.x was very
open. There was even a published book with the source code for the OS.
The systems were reasonably priced and all was well. And then the
company became more closed and greedy. License costs for VMS went sky
high, no more source code and there were shenanigans with VAXBI bus, a
proprietary version of VME bus and also an attempt of creating a
proprietary version of SCSI bus in VAX 4000. Eventually people grew
tired and stopped buying it. Once mighty company, second only to IBM,
collapsed in a few months, was bought by Compaq, which was later
acquired by HP. HP has the Midas touch: it turns everything into a
muffler: Polyserve, Compaq, DEC, they destroyed everything they touch.
Long story short, market can cut every company down to the proper size,
even Oracle.
Regards
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Tel: (347) 321-1217
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