Databases and office suites
You should also consider that MySQL and Open Office are under the Sun umbrella. I don't know how well Oracle's products can be embedded, but MySQL and a lot of Java driven databases sure can. That...
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Everyone talks about how Java fits into this, but I think that MySQL might be a bigger deal. Sun never made a dime on Java, and the Java was doing their own thing without Sun's involvement anyways....
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Yup, I agree with you. We can all see who's getting squished in the middle between the high priced Oracle products and the free MySQL.
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As long as the OSE MySQL isn't made closed source, I am cool with whatever they do. I am not very up-to-date on Oracle's FLOSS strategy, but if they accept it and embrace it the way Sun did with Java,...
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