Dana Blankenhorn has been a journalist, writer and part-time futurist for over 30 years.
Business is business no busibness is war with
all its massacre and dirty move .... because if
business would be civilize there would no need
for rules and regulation anti-trust , and
other law .
we are in recession because business is war no
one have ever look what you be the consequence
in 2005-6-7 with fake mortgage and everything
that come with it the only thing important was
profit .....
Ellision is one of the few General in this war
that did not change course or did not slow down
.
but this time he face a enemy who's goal is
not money or business EC goal is about
regulation And EC is a enemy that you cant bluff or intimidate . you comply or face the consequence.
At this time if Ellision dont make a move or
make a decision HE will be responsible for
neither failure of the sun purchase or its
complete success .
People are talking about sun market share on
server and how bad its going .... Are we even
sure if Ellison care about this or he as other
plan for SUN.....
One thing is sure Ellison must make a move fast
and change the situation give in on EC demanded and find a way to make them pay later.
Or keep the course and play chicken with a
organization who as nothing to loose .....
Dithering has become one of the big insult words of 2009.
The President was said to be dithering on Afghanistan. The Senate was said to be dithering on health care.
It’s both a technical term and a non-technical one. Dither makes your CD clearer by preventing banding on a recording. Dithering in this case is good, it clarifies.
That’s not what the critics mean. They mean shaking with cold and doing nothing about it, in short vacillating. The insult means you should take action, some action, before you catch your political death.
Over the last few weeks open source users have gotten into a dither over Larry Ellison’s dithering. He demands the EC approve his purchase of Sun, no preconditions, and when that’s not happening he just stands out there in the cold.
It’s not making the music of this merger any clearer, or its picture any sharper. That is certain. The intent to use mySQL is falling, Sun is losing server share, and companies like Red Hat and VMWare’s SpringSource unit are taking up the slack on Java for their own reasons. IBM is not going to let Open Office just die.
My silly idea, of creating a Foundation among mySQL stakeholders, makes more and more sense. Separate the code from the money, and you take the money, Larry.
Business, like nature, abhors a vacuum, and the impasse between Oracle and the EC, while highly entertaining and strangely satisfying in a nationalistic sort of way, is bad for business. And business is business. It’s not romance, it’s not war, it’s not about feelings. It’s just business.
Pride goes before a fall, Mr. E. A mySQL Foundation raises money, improves maintenance of the code base, and lets you make more money in the long run than winning a pissing match with the Eurocrats.
Stop dithering and do business.
