Pots, kettles and a non-reflective surface covering
Moreover, Big Red's database exec – who has been with the firm 35 years – said that the fact open-source vendors are now changing their licensing models effectively rendered them "proprietary vendors… with a lock-in strategy".
Oh noes, I might get locked in! Better switch back to Oracle or SQL Server then.
"Whatever semblance of openness they had, they're trying to take back… because it's going to be hard for them to survive in the cloud world if anybody can just pick up their code and just build a cloud service out of it."
Sounds easy. Perhaps Oracle should have done that instead of trying to build a cloud service out your own DB?
BTW, how's that JEDI lawsuit going?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
