>"Then there are no reasons to expect it to be open, as long as it's commercially viable to sell it. This is Oracle we're talking about. Not a company known for

>"Then there are no reasons to expect it to be open, as long as it's commercially viable to sell it. This is Oracle we're talking about. Not a company known for its love for F/OSS." It'd be a real shame if Oracle couldn't see the benefits of open-sourcing SVM. New companies are far less likely to base their tech stack on closed source components when more mature open-source competitors exist, there's too much risk involved.