From the ‘Define:open’ files:
Oracle’s OpenWorld event is coming next month, which makes me wonder about using the words ‘open’ and Oracle in the same sentence. Is Oracle ‘open’? and what is ‘open’?
When I hear the word ‘open’ in a technology context, I tend to cringe. It’s a word that is thrown around by all kinds of vendors with varying definitions.
There is of course open source, which is defined by the open source definition with licenses that are approved as open source via the Open Source Initiative (OSI). So starting with Open Source as a good way to define ‘open’ , let’s take a look at how open Oracle is.
For starters, Oracle acquired Sun last year and Sun is a company with a mixed history around open source. In its’ final years, Sun fully embraced open source with a move towards open source for many (if not most) of its products, including Java and Solaris.
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