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As someone who helped the guy who was writing the Waters article I am upbeat about OSS, but see the Oracle acquisition of Sun as a backward step for OSS and for users of s/w in general.If you've ever done business with Oracle, you will know that they didn't get to this position by helping people, and I expect that they see the damage their acquisition has done to MySQL as a good thing.The platform may be a good thing, when I actually get some details about it, I might comment further, but a full commitment to an open platform is such a radical change for BB that I need to have personally kicked the wheels before I believe it will drive away.However any industrial strength platform needs people to look after it, and with usage costs are typically the main factor in how much you end up paying for a system. Often this means there is very little difference, so you must choose on grounds of functionality, reliability and flexibility, and a term often missing from the discussion, whether your team has anyone who can drive it.
As someone who helped the guy who was writing the Waters article I am upbeat about OSS, but see the Oracle acquisition of Sun as a backward step for OSS and for users of s/w in general.
If you've ever done business with Oracle, you will know that they didn't get to this position by helping people, and I expect that they see the damage their acquisition has done to MySQL as a good thing.
The platform may be a good thing, when I actually get some details about it, I might comment further, but a full commitment to an open platform is such a radical change for BB that I need to have personally kicked the wheels before I believe it will drive away.
However any industrial strength platform needs people to look after it, and with usage costs are typically the main factor in how much you end up paying for a system. Often this means there is very little difference, so you must choose on grounds of functionality, reliability and flexibility, and a term often missing from the discussion, whether your team has anyone who can drive it.
