You not too familiar with Ellison's frequent ramblings on this subject are you? Take a look at the link below I think it will open your eyes to how Ellison view

You not too familiar with Ellison's frequent ramblings on this subject are you? Take a look at the link below I think it will open your eyes to how Ellison views Open Source, he sees very little value in it and will not buy Open Source companies because he feels that he cannot monetize them. To the potential that he would want to. It is natural to draw the conclusion that he sees Suns free offerings in the same light as he has never changes position on the subject. It is no big secret that the only kind of customer Oracle has is the paying kind. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061306424713 http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061... As well as this one where they pretty much say yep we are going to monetize the JVM. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/06/oracle_dueling_jvms/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/06/oracle_dueling_jvms/ We see in China and India, all that stuff is freely available and Red Hat is just cut completely out of the market. I'm not gong to spend $5bn, or $6bn, for something that can just be so completely wiped off the map. They take all the Red Hat code, have their own equivalent of the Red Hat network, and Red Hat gets zero. So its all very interesting. You can build a sustainable business [in open source], you just can't charge a lot for it. There's brand value – there's real brand – there's people, and that's it.