Monday, April 24, 2006
"Why I Didn't Buy JBoss," By Oracle CEO Larry Ellison @ SYS-CON ITALIA
http://it.sys-con.com/read/210458.htm: "According to the newspaper, Oracle's boss said:
'If an open source product gets good enough, we�ll simply take it. Take Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache.'
Then Ellison goes on to say why he didn't, despite the rumors last year, buy JBoss.
'JBoss wanted to sell the company to us. Clearly if we wanted to buy JBoss we�d have bought JBoss. Why didn�t we buy JBoss? Because we don�t have to � if it ever got good enough we�d just take the intellectual property � just like Apache � embed it in our Fusion middleware suite, and we�re done. We always have that option available to us � IBM always has that option available to them.' "
'If an open source product gets good enough, we�ll simply take it. Take Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache.'
Then Ellison goes on to say why he didn't, despite the rumors last year, buy JBoss.
'JBoss wanted to sell the company to us. Clearly if we wanted to buy JBoss we�d have bought JBoss. Why didn�t we buy JBoss? Because we don�t have to � if it ever got good enough we�d just take the intellectual property � just like Apache � embed it in our Fusion middleware suite, and we�re done. We always have that option available to us � IBM always has that option available to them.' "
