Comments on: The State of Oracle/Sun Grid Engine http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7850/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: margravezakhur http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7850/#comment-8660 margravezakhur Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7850/#comment-8660 <p>Well, in my experience, Oracle has a corporate culture to puff their own product to suits and they even try to sell to techs. With their main line a software product which is competing with some open source software, it is not likely that their corporate culture can withstand the shock of open source all that well, and I would expect their reaction to be defensive.</p> <p>They have good reason to be defensive. I used to program monitoring for databases, and Oracle would have more than 200 issues a day to Netezza's 30, MSSQL/Remedy's 50 and MySQL's 40 (None for Postgresql, where many of the same features Oracle has trouble with actually seem to work).</p> <p>But expect Oracle's management to be iffy and confused for several years on open source. They have to figure out how to deal with MySQL as well. </p> Well, in my experience, Oracle has a corporate culture to puff their own product to suits and they even try to sell to techs. With their main line a software product which is competing with some open source software, it is not likely that their corporate culture can withstand the shock of open source all that well, and I would expect their reaction to be defensive.

They have good reason to be defensive. I used to program monitoring for databases, and Oracle would have more than 200 issues a day to Netezza’s 30, MSSQL/Remedy’s 50 and MySQL’s 40 (None for Postgresql, where many of the same features Oracle has trouble with actually seem to work).

But expect Oracle’s management to be iffy and confused for several years on open source. They have to figure out how to deal with MySQL as well.

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