Ned Lilly wrote:
> Holy moly:
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060209_810527.htm
It is interesting that they are purchasing companies that almost fully
control the software but give it away free as open source: Sleepycat,
JBoss, and Zend. Oracle's purchase months ago of InnoDB used by MySQL
was a similar move.
What they are _not_ getting involved in is software that is community
controlled, like PostgreSQL or Linux, because it much harder to see how
a purchase would allow tight control of the software, resulting in
revenue.
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