{"id":161,"date":"2006-06-01T14:33:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=161"},"modified":"2006-06-01T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T21:33:44","slug":"the-softer-side-of-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/06\/01\/the-softer-side-of-oracle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Softer Side of Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I bookmarked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/_yahoo\/tech\/software\/10278393.html\">this short, but packed, interview with Oracle&#8217;s Charles Phillips<\/a>, it&#8217;s worth calling out this too-long-to-fit into del.icio.us quote on open source from Phillips:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[OSS] is just another choice for customers. Some prefer it, but we view it as a positive for Oracle. Open source lets people quickly learn about various technologies and get the skill sets they need. If they are serious about deploying and using those applications they&#8217;ll want a commercial-grade product, they&#8217;ll want global support, all the things you can&#8217;t get from open source. Then they come to Oracle. It&#8217;s sending us new customers and educating people we probably couldn&#8217;t reach on our own.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really, he&#8217;s not saying anything different than <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/5f7bdc18-ce85-11da-a032-0000779e2340.html\">Larry Ellison did last month<\/a>, but feels much more warm-and-fuzzy than,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf an open source product gets good enough, we&#8217;ll simply take it&#8230;. We don&#8217;t have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, hey, that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s vendor <i>sports<\/i>, right?<\/p>\n<p>(Have I mentioned how much of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/001654.html\">a pain in the ass sucky hosting is?<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/marketing\" rel=\"tag\">marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/oracle\" rel=\"tag\">oracle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/rhetoric\" rel=\"tag\">rhetoric<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I bookmarked this short, but packed, interview with Oracle&#8217;s Charles Phillips, it&#8217;s worth calling out this too-long-to-fit into del.icio.us quote on open source from Phillips: [OSS] is just another choice for customers. Some prefer it, but we view it as a positive for Oracle. Open source lets people quickly learn about various technologies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-marketing","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}