Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts

14 October 2010

arrogance, personified

I see this in the overnights from the OpenJDK front:
IBM joins the OpenJDK community, will help unify open source Java efforts, with the salient 'pull quote'

It became clear to us that first Sun and then Oracle were never planning to make the important test and certification tests for Java, the Java SE TCK, available to Apache
This dovetails with my prior post

It's official -- Oracle is a profit maximizer and could care a hoot about being anything but dictate what is best to FOSS. But then you already knew that, right?

Not to sound arrogant, but we know how to deal with the Linux community
... naw, that does not sound arrogant, at all, Wim

25 August 2010

Rock and Roll never forgets ...

I came across this quote [pdf] today, from 2006 doing some research. From TFA:

Q: Why isn't Oracle a member of the OSDL?
A. ... We basically know where to go. We have a good relationship directly with people in the Linux community. We have all our partners. So there is no immediate advantage to being a member for us.
Not to sound arrogant, but we know how to deal with the Linux community

Gotcha, Wim ... 'does not play well with others'

... in a related vein, I cannot remember the last time I heard an Oracle representative on the weekly LSB conference call