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the world is moving towards Open Source software... I'm not so sure, and if it is, it's happening slooowly. I've read other (insightful) comments of yours abo

• mindcrime 14y ago
  I'm not so sure, and if it is, it's happening slooowly. Oh, absolutely. But this isn't entirely a case of wishful thinking with no foundation. I'd have to stop and spend time to dig up the links, but there have been more than a few analyst reports and what-not, including by the big boys like Gartner and so-on, saying the same thing. We've also heard this from customers. Just to give one example... we sat down with some people from a major bank (they're in the Fortune 250) and asked them some of these questions. What we heard was "5 years ago, OSS would have been a non-starter. Now, we're actively looking to use more OSS because we believe it delivers better value". That said, we're not saying that Oracle is going to go away anytime soon, but there are a lot of signs there. Going back to Oracle for a minute, their acquisition of MySQL says something. And Red Hat breaking the billion dollar mark in revenue last year is also an encouraging sign. All I'm saying is beware of that cognitive bias. Well said.