I got a call from a reporter today asking about the Red Hat JBoss deal. RedMonk hasn’t had a chance to tease out all the implications but here are some of my immediate thoughts: The acquisition makes sense-bringing together as…

I got a call from a reporter today asking about the RedHat JBoss deal. RedMonk hasn’t had a chance to tease out all the implications but here are some of my immediate thoughts: The acquisition makes sense-bringing together as it…

While reading the tecosystems blog, I stumbled over Steven’s entry “The Oracle M&A Q&A: JBoss, Sleepycat and Zend”. It seems that at least Oracle’s interest in Zend is true: “[...] and in one panel yesterday Zend’s Doron Gerstel did little to deny the O

If my read on the OSS dev community is anywhere near right, they’re a fiercely independent bunch. I’m not sure the Novell comparison is as good. Novell had underdog status written all over it before it did the SuSe thing. That has a curious attraction. The same cannot be said of ORCL.

So let’s look at an off beat comparison with MSFT. Depsite the atttention the likes of Scoble gets and his unquestioned bravery in calling out his own company – is there any hard evidence that its DNA is changing?

ORCL would have to keep the OSS stuff out of Redwood Shores at the very least. Position it as in independent operating unit and only have a very light touch. If it can do those things AND put the right type of sales/consulting wrapper around it, then it might just work as a disrupting influence.

Sometimes we give away too much. I kind of feel Stephen did just that with his superb take on the swirling Oracle buys everyone open source rumors. I need to feed my boy, Stephen!  In the spirit of teasing out…

The industry is about to get a lot more interesting. Stephen as usual does a great job of laying out the core issues concerning Oracle bids for JBoss, Sleepycat and Zend . Life at Oracle is about to get a lot more…